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All Shook Up

Penelope Lively ME, THE MOON AND ELVIS PRESLEY by Christopher Hope Macmillan, £15.99, pp. 263 C hristopher Hope is a master of robustly inventive black satire. This has been his......

Adrift In The Male Doldrums

Anita Brookner WOMEN WITH MEN by Richard Ford Harvill, f14.99, pp. 255 R ichard Ford's heroes, markedly _unheroic, live through a series of glum but sweet-natured intentions,......