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,
“... too. He found that he shared his interest in dirty books with ‘the sensitive and worldly-wise’ Robert Conquest and together they went on expeditions, trawling the specialist shops for their respective bag in a partnership that seems both carefree and innocent. Unusual, too, as I had always thought that porn, looking for it and looking at it, was something ... ”