I’ve meant to read John Dos Passos for years, in particular his trilogy U.S.A. Perhaps this shorter novel might act as a gateway to the doorstop. Anyway, it didn’t take long for me to fall for Manhattan Transfer. It happened round about paragraph one. Three gulls wheel above the broken boxes, orangerinds, spoiled cabbage heads … … Continue reading →| Somewhere Boy
My previous experience of David Garnett extended to one book, but what a book! namely his 1922 novella Lady into Fox. Surely no other work of his could measure up, but we had The Sailor’s Return in the library and I was keen to try it. It’s June 1858, and William Targett has returned to … … Continue reading →| Somewhere Boy
Is it 1925 Club season already? Thanks to Simon and Karen as ever for what will be a stimulating and (on this blog, at any rate) occasionally weird week. One reason I wanted to read Virginia Woolf&…| Somewhere Boy
