On the Salieri Express
John Sutherland, 24 September 1992
Doctor Criminale
by Malcolm Bradbury.
Secker, 343 pp., £14.99, September 1992,0 436 20115 1 Show More
by Malcolm Bradbury.
Secker, 343 pp., £14.99, September 1992,
The Promise of Light
by Paul Watkins.
Faber, 217 pp., £14.99, September 1992,0 571 16715 2 Show More
by Paul Watkins.
Faber, 217 pp., £14.99, September 1992,
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman
by Louis de Bernières.
Secker, 388 pp., £14.99, August 1992,0 436 20114 3 Show More
by Louis de Bernières.
Secker, 388 pp., £14.99, August 1992,
Written on the Body
by Jeanette Winterson.
Cape, 190 pp., £13.99, September 1992,0 224 03587 8 Show More
by Jeanette Winterson.
Cape, 190 pp., £13.99, September 1992,
“... direct apology for boyhood’. So, too, with Watkins. If he has a contemporary analogue, it is Steven Spielberg in such nostalgic exercises as Young Sherlock Holmes and his homage to Treasure Island, Goonies. Like Stevenson, Spielberg raises the romp to an art form. The Promise of Light cries out for film adaptation. Its Hiberno-American theme suggests ... ”