Pseud’s Corner
John Sutherland, 17 July 1980
The Middle Ground
by Margaret Drabble.
Weidenfeld, 248 pp., £5.95, June 1980,0 297 77808 0 Show More
by Margaret Drabble.
Weidenfeld, 248 pp., £5.95, June 1980,
The Boy Who Followed Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith.
Heinemann, 292 pp., £6.50, April 1980,0 434 33520 7 Show More
by Patricia Highsmith.
Heinemann, 292 pp., £6.50, April 1980,
“... and wishing to provide for his family – Burgess was driven to the expedient of writing as ‘Joseph Kell’ (by association with the Book of Kells, I have always assumed). Reprieved, Burgess as Burgess mischievously reviewed a production of Burgess as Kell. Doubtless if the annals of pseudonymy were opened up one would find many such frolics. As well as ... ”