Other Selves
John Bayley, 29 October 1987
Myself and Michael Innes
by J.I.M. Stewart.
Gollancz, 206 pp., £12.95, September 1987,0 575 04104 8 Show More
by J.I.M. Stewart.
Gollancz, 206 pp., £12.95, September 1987,
“... masterpiece of ‘Seaton’s Aunt’. The process works another way, too. In his splendid stories John Updike creates a far more telling image of himself as a denizen of suburban America, and a participator in its ritual matings and partings, than if he had spelt it all out in the true first person, recounting his triumphs and disasters in the field of sex ... ”