Chonkin’s Vicissitudes
Graham Hough, 1 October 1981
Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
by Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Richard Lourie.
Cape, 358 pp., £7.95, September 1981,9780224019668 Show More
by Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Richard Lourie.
Cape, 358 pp., £7.95, September 1981,
The Temptation of Eileen Hughes
by Brian Moore.
Cape, 224 pp., £6.50, October 1981,0 224 01936 8 Show More
by Brian Moore.
Cape, 224 pp., £6.50, October 1981,
The Christmas Tree
by Jennifer Johnston.
Hamish Hamilton, 167 pp., £6.50, September 1981,0 241 10673 7 Show More
by Jennifer Johnston.
Hamish Hamilton, 167 pp., £6.50, September 1981,
“... Belfast stands for boredom, frustration, suffocating routine, aborted loves and fetid pieties. Graham Greene is quoted as saying that Brian Moore is his favourite living novelist, and one can see why. All those Pelagian notions anathema to Mr Greene – that man might save himself by his own efforts, or improve his ... ”