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Patrick Parrinder, 7 August 1986

The Golden Gate 
by Vikram Seth.
Faber, 307 pp., £9.95, June 1986, 0 571 13967 1
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The Haunted House 
by Rebecca Brown.
Picador, 139 pp., £8.95, June 1986, 0 330 29175 0
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Whole of a Morning Sky 
by Grace Nichols.
Virago, 156 pp., £9.95, July 1986, 0 86068 774 0
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The Piano Tuner 
by Peter Meinke.
Georgia, 156 pp., $13.95, June 1986, 0 8203 0844 7
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Tap City 
by Ron Abell.
Secker, 273 pp., £10.95, July 1986, 0 436 00025 3
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... breed begot by boredom out of greed. Anyone sharing that opinion is likely to stay clear of Ron Abell’s Tap City, a sports novel offering running commentary on the First Annual Stretch Jackson Seven-Card Stud Poker Classic held at the Taj Mahal in Reno, Nevada. Abell’s novel, however, is not only a must for ...

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