Injury Time: A MemoirPimlico, 2003 - 183 Seiten D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language. |
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... novel about a hyperactive necrophile given to killing courting couples and detaching the female and conveying her to his harem in a conveniently cool cave , she professed surprise that so kind and understanding a person as myself ( i.e. ...
... novel about a hyperactive necrophile given to killing courting couples and detaching the female and conveying her to his harem in a conveniently cool cave , she professed surprise that so kind and understanding a person as myself ( i.e. ...
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... novel he merely sells her to a sailor . Alluding to the title of Thomas Wolfe's novel , a writer in the Times Literary Supplement quoted the pertinent line from Lycidas as ' Look homeward , Angel , now , and melt in truth . ' A striking ...
... novel he merely sells her to a sailor . Alluding to the title of Thomas Wolfe's novel , a writer in the Times Literary Supplement quoted the pertinent line from Lycidas as ' Look homeward , Angel , now , and melt in truth . ' A striking ...
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... novel and a plausible candidate for the Pulitzer Prize ' ( Guardian ) ; " The work of a real writer , following his ... novel , deep and intriguing , worthy of its bald , bold language and biblical allusion ... a literary evocation of ...
... novel and a plausible candidate for the Pulitzer Prize ' ( Guardian ) ; " The work of a real writer , following his ... novel , deep and intriguing , worthy of its bald , bold language and biblical allusion ... a literary evocation of ...
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