Catch 28
John Lanchester, 3 March 1988
The Swimming-Pool Library
by Alan Hollinghurst.
Chatto, 288 pp., £11.95, February 1988,0 7011 3282 5 Show More
by Alan Hollinghurst.
Chatto, 288 pp., £11.95, February 1988,
The Beautiful Room is Empty
by Edmund White.
Picador, 184 pp., £9.95, January 1988,0 330 30394 5 Show More
by Edmund White.
Picador, 184 pp., £9.95, January 1988,
“... legacy of a belief in possibility, a belief in the expandability and perfectibility of the self. Edmund White is very much in this tradition, and remembering that helps one to understand the charm of his work, which has a lot to do with the way his creations seem to have invented themselves in accordance with a clear idea of what they want to be ... ”