Home-breaking
Danny Karlin, 23 May 1991
Life of a Drum
byCarlo Gebler.
Hamish Hamilton, 173 pp., £13.99, February 1991,0 241 13074 3 Show More
byCarlo Gebler.
Hamish Hamilton, 173 pp., £13.99, February 1991,
A Home at the End of the World
byMichael Cunningham.
Hamish Hamilton, 343 pp., £13.99, February 1991,0 241 12909 5 Show More
byMichael Cunningham.
Hamish Hamilton, 343 pp., £13.99, February 1991,
A place I’ve never been
byDavid Leavitt.
Viking, 194 pp., £12.99, February 1991,0 670 82196 9 Show More
byDavid Leavitt.
Viking, 194 pp., £12.99, February 1991,
“... for his family, his ‘meteoric rise into respectability and affluence’, followed, of course, by his spectacular fall (linked, in Dickensian or Trollopian fashion, both to sexual profligacy and to speculation on the railways). The story is based on a true case, that of Charles Warde, and incorporates documentary passages from legal proceedings and ... ”