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When I Am Old And Gay And Full Of Sleep

Penelope Fitzgerald RAVELSTEIN by Saul Bellow Viking £16.99, pp. 254 O ld age, on the whole, is not a time to be recommended, but very old novelists are allowed to write about......

I Know What It Is To Be A Subject

Doris Lessing saying that I believe biographies should be written after the favoured one's death. At once followed indignation and letters that verged on the threatening. My......