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Asking too much

Stephen Wall, 22 February 1990

Lust, and Other Stories 
by Susan Minot.
Heinemann, 147 pp., £12.95, February 1990, 9780434467570Show More
In Transit 
by Mavis Gallant.
Faber, 229 pp., £12.99, February 1990, 0 571 14212 5Show More
The Perfect Place 
by Sheila Kohler.
Cape, 148 pp., £11.95, February 1990, 0 224 02748 4Show More
Howling at the moon 
by Paul Sayer.
Constable, 174 pp., £10.95, February 1990, 0 09 469590 3Show More
Happiland 
by William Bedford.
Heinemann, 186 pp., £12.95, February 1990, 9780434055593Show More
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“... example of an art that deserves respect. Egotism takes on an inter-continental dimension in Sheila Kohler’s chilly and chilling first novel The Perfect Place. The narrator is in the Swiss mountains for her health, but she has a house in the Cotswolds for her things, and expresses herself with the studied enervation of one who has no need to think ...”

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