Sometimes I think I must be missing something. Thomas Bernhard, according to his Wikipedia entry “is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era”. The novel before me, Old Masters, has its own Wikipedia page, and has been selected by Penguin to be included in its glossy new [...]
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. . . written by Tom Cunliffe, of East Sussex, England (to read more about me see my About page).
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Noted novelist and translator Tim Parks has departed from his usual themes to write this autobiographical account of his journey from a life dominated by acute pain to one where a reasonable equilibrium between body and soul enables him to live in relative comfort and healthy productivity. Teach Us To Sit Still will be [...] |
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