A Little Electronic Dawn
James Francken: Perlman, Anderson and Heller, 24 August 2000
The Reasons I Won't Be Coming
by Elliot Perlman.
Faber, 314 pp., £9.99, July 2000,0 571 19699 3 Show More
by Elliot Perlman.
Faber, 314 pp., £9.99, July 2000,
Turn of the Century
by Kurt Anderson.
Headline, 819 pp., £7.99, February 2000,0 7472 6800 2 Show More
by Kurt Anderson.
Headline, 819 pp., £7.99, February 2000,
“... consultant breaks this rule in ‘Your Niece’s Speech Night’, the strong opening story in Elliot Perlman’s uneven first collection; she gives her password to the narrator, who is ‘computer illiterate’, when she is teaching him how to use e-mail. The narrator (who isn’t named) works for a faceless corporation – ‘these days I don’t ... ”
