Are women nicer than men?
Michael Wood, 21 February 1985
The Collected Stories
by Frank Tuohy.
Macmillan, 410 pp., £12.95, December 1984,0 333 38534 9 Show More
by Frank Tuohy.
Macmillan, 410 pp., £12.95, December 1984,
The Apple in the Dark
by Clarice Lispector, translated by Gregory Rabassa.
Virago, 361 pp., £10.95, January 1985,0 86068 605 1 Show More
by Clarice Lispector, translated by Gregory Rabassa.
Virago, 361 pp., £10.95, January 1985,
Family Ties
by Clarice Lispector and Giovanni Pontiero.
Carcanet, 140 pp., £8.95, January 1985,0 85636 569 6 Show More
by Clarice Lispector and Giovanni Pontiero.
Carcanet, 140 pp., £8.95, January 1985,
“... men and women, are nicer than most folks in fiction, or in fact. They are a lot nicer than Frank Tuohy’s characters. But then, niceness is not all. Some of Tuohy’s stories wander rather mournfully through Maugham country, highlighting various modes of English exile, and reminding us that failure is usually ... ”
