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Pioneers

Paul Ableman The Lover A.B. Yehoshua Trans. Philip Simpson (Heinemann £4.95) 'And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he......

J. G. Farrell

Benny Green The death last week of the novelist James Farrell represents a loss which contemporary English fiction is hardly equipped to sustain. Now that he has been drowned in......