Water Music
Allon White, 2 September 1982
Collected Short Stories
by John Cheever.
Penguin, 704 pp., £4.95, March 1982,0 14 005575 4 Show More
by John Cheever.
Penguin, 704 pp., £4.95, March 1982,
So long a Letter
by Mariama Bâ, translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas.
Virago, £5.50, August 1982,0 86068 295 1 Show More
by Mariama Bâ, translated by Modupé Bodé-Thomas.
Virago, £5.50, August 1982,
A joke goes a long way in the country
by Alannah Hopkin.
Hamish Hamilton, 157 pp., £7.95, July 1982,0 241 10798 9 Show More
by Alannah Hopkin.
Hamish Hamilton, 157 pp., £7.95, July 1982,
“... was by the bars of Falconer jail. Virago have just published a first novel by a Senegalese woman, Mariama Bâ. So Long a Letter has qualities which put Cheever’s playful fictions into perspective. It reminds me of Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station: this, too, is an intense elegy of loss and rejection. It has the same grief, the same ... ”
