Spicy
Nicholas Spice, 15 March 1984
The Fetishist, and Other Stories
by Michel Tournier, translated by Barbara Wright.
Collins, 220 pp., £8.95, November 1983,0 00 221440 7 Show More
by Michel Tournier, translated by Barbara Wright.
Collins, 220 pp., £8.95, November 1983,
My Aunt Christina, and Other Stories
by J.I.M. Stewart.
Gollancz, 207 pp., £8.95, May 1983,0 575 03256 1 Show More
by J.I.M. Stewart.
Gollancz, 207 pp., £8.95, May 1983,
Mr Bedford and the Muses
by Gail Godwin.
Heinemann, 229 pp., £7.95, February 1984,0 434 29751 8 Show More
by Gail Godwin.
Heinemann, 229 pp., £7.95, February 1984,
“... attempts suicide, surviving to be rehabilitated in a mental hospital. As its title suggests, Wendy Law-Yone’s book is about the presence of death in the midst of life, about human nature quavering between the will to live and the will to die. ‘Living things prefer to go on living’ is as far as she is prepared to go, and she only reaches this ... ”
