Bugger me blue
Ian Hamilton, 22 October 1992
The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin
edited by Anthony Thwaite.
Faber, 759 pp., £20, October 1992,0 571 15197 3 Show More
edited by Anthony Thwaite.
Faber, 759 pp., £20, October 1992,
“... There is a story that when William F. Buckley Jr sent a copy of his essays to Norman Mailer, he pencilled a welcoming ‘Hi, Norman!’ in the Index, next to Mailer’s name. A similar tactic might happily have been ventured by the publishers of Philip Larkin’s Letters: the book’s back pages are going to be well-thumbed ... ”