Review:
The Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis and The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
From Planet 239
Jon Gower revisits
The Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis and The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
There’s a vulgar measure of the vitality of a culture that counts the number of opera houses and orchestras in a country. You might to do the same with asking how many times its fiction has won the Booker, which stands on the expansive landscape of literary prizes like a cathedral among booths. Wales has garnered two Bookers, with two very different tales, a boozy careering through middle-class mores and a darkly pleasing Jewish novel with more than a hint of Kafka about it.
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