Alas! Deceived
Alan Bennett: Philip Larkin, 25 March 1993
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life
by Andrew Motion.
Faber, 570 pp., £20, April 1993,0 571 15174 4 Show More
by Andrew Motion.
Faber, 570 pp., £20, April 1993,
“... Nor was the father a tyrant; he introduced his son to the works of Hardy and, more surprisingly, Joyce, did not regard jazz as the work of the devil, bought him a subscription to the magazine Downbeat (a signpost here) and also helped him invest in a drum-kit. What if anything he bought his daughter Kitty and what Mrs Larkin thought of it all is not ... ”