Chiara Ridolfi
C.K. Stead, 9 October 1986
The Dresden Gate
by Michael Schmidt.
Hutchinson, 152 pp., £9.95, September 1986,0 09 165510 2 Show More
by Michael Schmidt.
Hutchinson, 152 pp., £9.95, September 1986,
First Fictions: Introduction 9
by Deborah Moffat, Kristien Hemmerechts, Douglas Glover, Dorothy Nimmo and Jaci Stephen.
Faber, 255 pp., £3.95, August 1986,0 571 13607 9 Show More
by Deborah Moffat, Kristien Hemmerechts, Douglas Glover, Dorothy Nimmo and Jaci Stephen.
Faber, 255 pp., £3.95, August 1986,
“... Belgian, one Irish and one American; and they range in age from 26 to 54. Apart from the Belgian, Kristien Hemmerechts, whose characters seem to exist only to serve an idea, I found them all rewarding. The Introduction series must go back a long way: Ted Hughes appeared in the first, and Francis Hope and Tom Stoppard in the second. On the other hand, of ... ”
