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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior... | |
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Picador; 436 pages; 2021. Colm Tóibín is one of my favourite writers, but The Magician didn't quite work for me. It's an account of the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning German author Thomas Mann (1875-1955), whose work - Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain et al - I've never read,... | |
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Lilliput Press; 228 pages; 2017. A few years back I read Kevin Casey's A State of Mind, a memorable novel about a struggling writer living in Co. Wicklow, whose life is under threat from the IRA. Loosely based on British author Frederick Forsyth's experiences as a tax exile living in Ireland in... | |
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| | | The narrator of this novel is, like its author, a middle-aged Swiss writer named Christian Kracht. His mother calls him urgently to Zurich, which is a stifling place for him: Zurich was claustropho... | ||
