Dark Strangers, Gorgeous Slums
Philip Horne, 16 March 1989
Off the Rails: Memoirs of a Train Addict
by Lisa St Aubin de Teran.
Bloomsbury, 193 pp., £12.95, January 1989,0 7475 0011 8 Show More
by Lisa St Aubin de Teran.
Bloomsbury, 193 pp., £12.95, January 1989,
The Marble Mountain, and Other Stories
by Lisa St Aubin de Teran.
Cape, 126 pp., £10.95, January 1989,9780224025973 Show More
by Lisa St Aubin de Teran.
Cape, 126 pp., £10.95, January 1989,
The Bathroom
by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, translated by Barbara Bray.
Boyars, 125 pp., £11.95, February 1989,0 7145 2880 3 Show More
by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, translated by Barbara Bray.
Boyars, 125 pp., £11.95, February 1989,
A Lesser Dependency
by Peter Benson.
Macmillan, 146 pp., £11.95, February 1989,0 333 49093 2 Show More
by Peter Benson.
Macmillan, 146 pp., £11.95, February 1989,
“... Travel is sometimes supposed to broaden the mind, impending death to concentrate it. Travel is more desirable than impending death, but it is usually harder to arbitrate between the claims of mental breadth and concentration. Reading Off the Rails by Lisa St Aubin de Teran, however, a memoir in which she brings us up to date with her 35-year ‘lifetime of truancy and escape’, a career of spontaneously marrying, travelling and writing, will make many readers feel that the loss of some sorts of breadth is not to be deeply regretted ... ”