Underparts
Nicholas Spice, 6 November 1986
The Voyeur
by Alberto Moravia, translated by Tim Parks.
Secker, 186 pp., £9.95, October 1986,0 436 28721 8 Show More
by Alberto Moravia, translated by Tim Parks.
Secker, 186 pp., £9.95, October 1986,
Dvorak in Love
by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson.
Chatto, 322 pp., £10.95, September 1986,0 7011 2994 8 Show More
by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson.
Chatto, 322 pp., £10.95, September 1986,
Moments of Reprieve
by Primo Levi, translated by Ruth Feldman.
Joseph, 172 pp., £9.95, October 1986,0 7181 2726 9 Show More
by Primo Levi, translated by Ruth Feldman.
Joseph, 172 pp., £9.95, October 1986,
“... Readers of John Updike’s previous novel, The Witches of Eastwick, will not have forgotten Darryl Van Horne’s bottom: how, at the end of a game of tennis, Darryl dropped his shorts and thrust his hairy rump into his partner’s face, demanding that she kiss it, which she did. In Roger’s Version the roles are reversed. Now it is a young woman – Verna Ekelof – who exposes herself ... ”