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Transatlantic Blues, Wilfrid Sheed...
...Transatlantic Blues. Wilfrid Sheed...
FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré∙The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth∙ Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison ∙Transatlantic Blues, Wilfrid Sheed...
FICTION: Daniel Martin, John Fowles The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré ∙ The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth ∙ Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison ∙ Transatlantic Blues, Wilfrid Sheed...
Television situation comedy does a pretty good job of airing and disarming class anxieties. Most modern American fiction, on the other hand, remains generally psychological. In contrast, British novels still draw their deepest breaths from society and manners. Wilfrid Sheed, a wily English-born Catholic intellectual, can work both sides of the North Atlantic. Sheed's sharp, entertaining essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as one of America's best literary journalists; he is also a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club. His previous novels, which include A Middle Class Education, Max Jamison...