Problem Parent
Michael Wood, 17 August 1989
Memories of Amnesia
by Laurence Shainberg.
Collins Harvill, 190 pp., £10.95, April 1989,0 00 272024 8 Show More
by Laurence Shainberg.
Collins Harvill, 190 pp., £10.95, April 1989,
We find ourselves in Moontown
by Jay Gummerman.
Cape, 174 pp., £11.95, June 1989,0 224 02662 3 Show More
by Jay Gummerman.
Cape, 174 pp., £11.95, June 1989,
My Secret History
by Paul Theroux.
Hamish Hamilton, 468 pp., £13.95, June 1989,0 241 12369 0 Show More
by Paul Theroux.
Hamish Hamilton, 468 pp., £13.95, June 1989,
“... The answer is no, but he is not in his right mind, and may never get back. The characters in Jay Gummerman’s ten delicate and edgy stories don’t look within, and it wouldn’t do them much good if they did. They would see only a glare or mist, a landscape full of blank or broken signposts. But they don’t look outwards much either. They stumble ... ”
