Cheers
John Lanchester, 8 March 1990
The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer
by Tom Dardis.
Abacus, 292 pp., £3.99, February 1990,0 349 10143 4 Show More
by Tom Dardis.
Abacus, 292 pp., £3.99, February 1990,
“... motion. This funny, ungenerous evocation of the ‘American Kafka’ is surely a version of Raymond Carver, the ‘American Chekhov’, as transmogrified by Updike’s imagination. Certainly alcohol plays a part in Carver’s work very similar to the one it does in Klegg’s. On the other hand, the real-life ... ”