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Nor Any Drop To Drink

Janet Barron WATERMARK by Joseph Brodsky Hamish Hamilton, ,C12.99, pp. 135 I f J. Alfred Prufrock had been posted to Venice, this is the sort of lovesong he might have produced.......

The Lord Of The Ringlets

Caroline Moore OUT WITH THE STARS by James Purdy Peter Owen, ,C14.99, pp. 192 T his is the first novel by James Purdy that I have read, though according to the publisher's......