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,
“... As for its meaning, I can say for sure that it was ‘coffee’. There isn’t much plot, and Shainberg’s careful accounts of brain operations performed by and on Drogin are not going to appeal to the squeamish – or to anyone who is less than obsessive about clinical detail. Shainberg is also a little too pleased ... ”
