My Wife
Jonathan Coe
- Soho Square II edited by Ian Hamilton
Bloomsbury, 287 pp, £12.95, November 1989, ISBN 0 7475 0506 3
Bloomsbury have again brought out their hefty collection of contemporary writing just in time for Christmas, and indeed the enterprise is suffused with a sort of Christmas spirit. This ‘feast of new writing’ conjures up images of a lavish get-together where the nation’s literati – that quarrelsome but essentially close-knit family – bury their differences and gather noisily around the dinner table. Crusty old patriarchs and rebellious daughters sit in amicable adjacency, Candia McWilliam pulls crackers with Harold Pinter, and the whole atmosphere (though no one would like to admit it) is rather jolly.
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Vol. 11 No. 24 · 21 December 1989 » Jonathan Coe » My Wife
pages 20-21 | 1875 words