The Shirt of Nessan
Patricia Craig, 9 October 1986
The Free Frenchman
by Piers Paul Read.
Secker, 570 pp., £10.95, September 1986,0 436 40966 6 Show More
by Piers Paul Read.
Secker, 570 pp., £10.95, September 1986,
A New Shirt
by Desmond Hogan.
Hamish Hamilton, 215 pp., £9.95, September 1986,0 241 11928 6 Show More
by Desmond Hogan.
Hamish Hamilton, 215 pp., £9.95, September 1986,
“... ponderousness of tone that the book reproduces. Another epistolary novel (a very short one) is Eduardo Quiroga’s On Foreign Ground. An Argentinian soldier sits in a freezing tent in the Falklands seizing every opportunity to write clear-toned, factual, nostalgic letters to his English girlfriend. He is 22, a journalist on the Buenos Aires equivalent ... ”
