Dreams of Avarice
Patrick Parrinder, 29 August 1991
Lemprière’s Dictionary
by Lawrence Norfolk.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 530 pp., £14.95, August 1991,1 85619 053 6 Show More
by Lawrence Norfolk.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 530 pp., £14.95, August 1991,
“... situations, and a stylistic decorum verging on self-parody. No one is ‘discreetly wealthy’ in Ronald Frame’s snappy Underwood and Alter: their wealth is as indiscreet as the narrator’s fascination with it. Ralph Witton lives in a collector’s world of oriental carpets, sports cars and celebrities, with bit-parts (circa 1957) for the Windsors and ... ”