In Service
Anthony Thwaite, 18 May 1989
I served the King of England
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Paul Wilson.
Chatto, 243 pp., £12.95, May 1989,0 7011 3462 3 Show More
by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Paul Wilson.
Chatto, 243 pp., £12.95, May 1989,
The Children’s Crusade
by Rebecca Brown.
Picador, 121 pp., £10.95, March 1989,0 330 30529 8 Show More
by Rebecca Brown.
Picador, 121 pp., £10.95, March 1989,
“... when Eduardo goes down on me, I wrap the cord around his neck until he begs me for mercy.’ Kate Pullinger is altogether more low-key and sequential, and solemn to a degree. Her disaffected young exchange views on the state of London, England and the world in lugubrious tones. There are passages, whole pages, of a flatness so incredible (‘They ... ”