Making strange
John Sutherland, 19 March 1981
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
by Gerald Edwards.
Hamish Hamilton, 400 pp., £7.50, March 1981,0 241 10477 7 Show More
by Gerald Edwards.
Hamish Hamilton, 400 pp., £7.50, March 1981,
“... Wilson), ‘wickedly funny’ (A.S. Byatt), ‘very nourishing entertainment’ (Dame Rebecca West). The manuscript’s progress through the hands of less enthusiastic publishers has been recorded in various gossip columns. Anne Smith, editor of the Literary Review, is a canny publicist for herself and her journal. Now, at last, we have this ... ”