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A Horrible Unique Self

Peter Quennell FRANK HARRIS by Hugh Kingsmill Biografia, £17.50 F or a literary portraitist, one of the problems of depicting a human character is often its curious......

Alter Egocentric Circles

Francis King THE COUNTERLIFE by Philip Roth Cape, f10.95 E ither wholly or in large part, this novel is the product of what Philip Roth's alter ego and narrator, a highly......