Sprawson makes a splash
John Bayley, 23 July 1992
Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero
by Charles Sprawson.
Cape, 307 pp., £15.99, June 1992,0 224 02730 1 Show More
by Charles Sprawson.
Cape, 307 pp., £15.99, June 1992,
“... were like. But the most sober writers become filled with inspiration by a bathing scene. Even L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between waxes lyrical as he describes how his costumeless young hero has to watch from the bank as the giggling girls of the house party splash each other in their long linen bathing dresses, which undulate about them as they set out more ... ”