Pseud’s Corner
John Sutherland, 17 July 1980
The Middle Ground
by Margaret Drabble.
Weidenfeld, 248 pp., £5.95, June 1980,0 297 77808 0 Show More
by Margaret Drabble.
Weidenfeld, 248 pp., £5.95, June 1980,
The Boy Who Followed Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith.
Heinemann, 292 pp., £6.50, April 1980,0 434 33520 7 Show More
by Patricia Highsmith.
Heinemann, 292 pp., £6.50, April 1980,
“... Sun, there was no secret made about the fact. Nonetheless Amis wrote under the pseudonym ‘Robert Markham’. Presumably this indicates some sort of functional schizophrenia, a way of not being Amis while writing a very un-Amis-like book, yet at the same time receiving royalties into the Amis bank account. (Fleming, of course, was the biggest earner ... ”
