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“... to drive back to the Midwest, where Lily – as per her request – has been buried in a ‘green cemetery’: no gravestones, no markers, no rupture of the trees or landscape, with the bodies just becoming part of the earth. When Finn reaches the spot, ‘there was some rustling of leaves behind him. He heard a voice say: “I was hoping you’d get ...”

“... beckoned him towards the fence. Two men approached: J had a bushy moustache and was dressed in a green tracksuit; his companion had a blanket over his head, to protect him from the cold. J spoke enough Greek to communicate a few details: he was 28 and had arrived in Greece in 2011 by sneaking across the Evros, the river that runs along the Greek-Turkish land ...”

“... Daniel Farson was polite, self-deprecating, impressed by modesty and authenticity, grateful for favours, careful to keep track when it was his turn to buy drinks (which he often did). Gilbert and George, by contrast, are utterly stylised: they speak in relays, move like robots and strongly hint that there is no within within ...”

“... during the first two years of the ‘war on terror’ have already been forgotten. An exception is Daniel Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, who, early in 2002, was lured to a fashionable restaurant in Karachi, kidnapped and then executed by his captors. A video showing Pearl’s throat being slit was distributed to the Western ...”

“... population moved apartment every six months. ‘Everywhere the avenues are filled with yellow or green monsters,’ the Berliner Morgenpost wrote of ‘moving day’ at the end of September, ‘the moving trucks, crammed full, swaying dangerously back and forth, blocking the tracks of the Electric [the streetcar] and loathed by the taxis’. Berliners were ...”

“... of him in the barn; in Spring, Richard makes TV documentaries; and the slow-dreaming, 104-year-old Daniel Gluck (whom we first met in Autumn and who returns in Summer – a man for all seasons) awakes from his reveries and returns to the present when he hears a song he wrote playing on the TV in his rest home. The series as a whole worries about ...”

“... Yet the hue was off, at least to my eyes: the light orange was too close to both the bleached green of the grass and the smoky grey of the trees to make for a vivid contrast. Sometimes the banners did catch the light or the breeze to flow like veils or shimmer like kites, but often the nylon hung rather dull and limp like big tarps or giant laundry. Red ...”

“... and a robot wasp flashed up to the theme of 2001: A Space Odyssey as a pair of clowns in red and green monster suits pranced onstage to bow down before a giant bar of fudge. They were followed by Abovitz – if it was indeed he – in head-to-toe astronaut gear, who spoke only to declare the importance of an ‘ancient and magical keyword’, phydre, which ...”

“... later that day, I searched the long field of stones around the Chapel for traces of a missing boy. Daniel Handley, aged nine, had been missing from his home on the Windsor Park Estate since the previous Sunday. As I made my way down the field, losing sight of other people, I grew more and more uneasy. This was the largest patch of scrub near to ...”

“... months may seem an expressionist touch, but it corresponds to the conditions of life in Bowling Green, the town on which Purdy based it.Again Snyder hails the bravery involved: ‘The topic of same-sex love and desire was edgy for a novel published nine years before the Stonewall Inn protest. It was also risky, given the neglect and criticism Gore Vidal and ...”

“... he was undressing she had taken off her cardigan and jeans. Her knickers, like her T-shirt, were green. Cotton, not silk.’ Oh, the teenager’s shivering dream!Adult Roland considers the what-ifs. If he hadn’t spent every Saturday jumping into bed with Miriam then he wouldn’t have got eleven Fs at O level. He wouldn’t have spent the next forty years ...”

“... reptilian figure looking at a letter addressed ‘Dear Obscurity’. Another painting depicts the green-skinned, bowler-hatted figure of ‘commerce’ (based on Eisenman’s art dealer at the time, Leo Koenig) force-feeding the bound and ailing figure of ‘creativity’. This familiar tale was transformed, as for many artists, by a succession of ...”

“... and mildly depressed by the corpses he examines. He visits, or appears to visit, the 18-year-old green-eyed girl who lives upstairs, who is called Maya or perhaps Moira. She plays the piano heartbreakingly, and may be the daughter of a judge; she sleeps with strangers in the park and writes him letters on pink paper telling him she has slashed her wrists. In ...”

“... whether the cramped and caravan-like home being depicted is Much Wenlock 1949 (a ration book, a green-striped teapot!) or Lincolnshire 1975 (a leather jacket, an electric guitar!), and whether you’re watching Thea ignore her daughter Imogen or Beatrix ignore her daughter Thea. Women beget women, and cruelty begets cruelty, and we revisit on others the ...”

“... Marsh, a fictionalised version of Cheshire Street, which runs between Brick Lane and Bethnal Green. The novel follows the conflict between Dido Peach, a local protection racketeer, and the Javert-like figure of Detective Inspector Merry, who’s determined to bring him down. Baron uses local geography to dramatise his central theme of class ...”