20 AUGUST 1983, page 21

Rough Beasts

Christopher Hawtree Slouching Towards Kalamazoo Peter De Vries (Victor Gollancz £7.95) `rrhe standards for immorality are get - ". ting progressively steeper ... A hun- dred......

Fantasy Lives

Francis King rr hese two collections of short stories, 1 the first by an American woman and the second by an Englishman, are totally dissimilar. Though Bobbie Ann Mason now......