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,
“... room as it is, I want nothing to change.’ In an essay written recently for the New York Times, Helen Yglesias describes books as the means by which she escaped from an oppressive New York childhood. When, in her fifties, she began writing rather than reading them, books formed the means by which she returned to engagement with life’s ... ”
