At the Gay Hussar
John Sutherland, 20 August 1981
On the Yankee Station
by William Boyd.
Hamish Hamilton, 184 pp., £7.95, July 1981,0 241 10426 2 Show More
by William Boyd.
Hamish Hamilton, 184 pp., £7.95, July 1981,
Heavy Sand
by Anatoli Rybakov, translated by Harold Shuckman.
Allen Lane, 380 pp., £7.95, June 1981,0 7139 1343 6 Show More
by Anatoli Rybakov, translated by Harold Shuckman.
Allen Lane, 380 pp., £7.95, June 1981,
“... At some point it must have crossed Braine’s mind to call his latest novel ‘Love at the Top’. The hero is Tim Harnforth, a 56-year-old best-selling novelist and man of letters. Originally from the West Riding, he is now one of the gens du monde, ‘a high-flyer, a metropolitan man’, literary-lioning it in London. Young admirers come up to him in pubs and say: ‘Mr Harnforth? Mr Tim Harnforth?’ One and Last Love is Mr Tim Harnforth’s novel as well as Mr John Braine’s ... ”
