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Patrick Parrinder, 4 April 1985
Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories
by E.L. Doctorow.
Joseph, 145 pp., £8.95, April 1985,0 7181 2529 0 Show More
by E.L. Doctorow.
Joseph, 145 pp., £8.95, April 1985,
“... Here’s something out of the quaint past, a man reading a book,’ remarks E.L. Doctorow’s narrator as he rides the New York subway. The other passengers in the subway are not readers but listeners, hooked to their earphones and tape-players, ‘listening their way back from literacy ... ”