Adulterers’ Distress
Philip Horne, 21 July 1983
A Nail on the Head
by Clare Boylan.
Hamish Hamilton, 135 pp., £7.95, July 1983,0 241 11001 7 Show More
by Clare Boylan.
Hamish Hamilton, 135 pp., £7.95, July 1983,
New Stories 8: An Arts Council Anthology
edited by Karl Miller.
Hutchinson, 227 pp., £8.95, May 1983,9780091523800 Show More
edited by Karl Miller.
Hutchinson, 227 pp., £8.95, May 1983,
“... directed at critical areas of medical disagreement: Oliver Sacks’s surgeon calls himself a ‘carpenter’, treating his highly-qualified patient as a block; the significant case in ‘The Prescription’ has the old doctor ready to operate for appendicitis while his ex-apprentice proposes hypnosis and psychic liberation. There are three reminiscential ... ”