Impersonality
Barbara Everett, 10 November 1988
A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers
by Hugh Kenner.
Barrie and Jenkins, 290 pp., £16.95, September 1988,0 7126 2197 0 Show More
by Hugh Kenner.
Barrie and Jenkins, 290 pp., £16.95, September 1988,
“... its two chief characters, who mainly share the narration, are continuations of the late-Fifties Patrick and Jenny from Take a girl like you, thus giving the story its own recessive and wistful casting-back posture. In addition, though a light and easy and genuinely funny book, Difficulties with girls has a good deal of commerce with violence, darkness and ... ”