Water Music
Allon White, 2 September 1982
Collected Short Stories
by John Cheever.
Penguin, 704 pp., £4.95, March 1982,0 14 005575 4 Show More
by John Cheever.
Penguin, 704 pp., £4.95, March 1982,
So long a Letter
by Mariama Bâ, translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas.
Virago, £5.50, August 1982,0 86068 295 1 Show More
by Mariama Bâ, translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas.
Virago, £5.50, August 1982,
A joke goes a long way in the country
by Alannah Hopkin.
Hamish Hamilton, 157 pp., £7.95, July 1982,0 241 10798 9 Show More
by Alannah Hopkin.
Hamish Hamilton, 157 pp., £7.95, July 1982,
“... bad for me,’ she writes wryly, ‘if once again I have to write you so long a letter.’ Alannah Hopkin is another writer who seeks dubious rural solutions to urban problems. A joke goes a long way in the country is a novel fashioned out of an idle fantasy common among the professional middle-class: how can I spend all my time at the holiday ... ”