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Hot Water And Cold Revenge

Philip Glazebrook THE STAR'S TENNIS BALLS by Stephen Fry Hutchinson, £16.99, pp. 371 T he opening pages of a novel need to interest the reader in the novel's milieu before he......

A Child Of Celluloid Fantasy

Jonathan Keates MANUEL PUIG AND THE SPIDER WOMAN by Suzanne Jill Levine Faber, £20, pp. 429 M anuel Puig (Pooch' to Catalans, `Pooig' to Argentinians) achieved interna- tional......