BOOK REVIEW: 3 Edition

• Published in: Independent (London, England : 1986) England : 1986), 1993
• Main Author: Winder, Robert
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Subjects: Amis, Martin; Archer, William; Armitage, Simon; Armitage, Simon (1963- ); Auden, W H; Austen, Jane; Bainbridge, Cyril; Baker, Deborah; Baxter, John; Bennet, Jane; Berryman, John (1914-1972); Bois, Frank; Boulez, Pierre; Bowker, Gordon; Byrne, CATHERINE; Cage, John; Calvino, Italo; Campbell, John Wood (1910-1971); Carr, Emsley; Chadwick, Douglas; Chamberlain, Neville; Charmley, John; Cochrane, Pat; Cockburn, Henry; Cole, Robert; Cottrell, Robert; Davidson, Keay; Deans, Jeanie; Deng Xiaoping; Deutsch, Andre; Dyer, Geoff; Evans, Richard; Fagles, Robert; Fellini, Federico; Forsyth, Patrick; Friedman, Jerome; Garton Ash, Timothy; Gascoigne, Paul (Gazza); Gaulle, de; Gilroy, Paul; Goebbels, Joseph; Goode, William J; Graves, Rupert; Hale, John; Hall, Rodney; Hamilton, Ian (1938-2001); Hiaasen, Carl; Hornby, Nick; Howard, Michael; Hubbard, L Ron; Jackson, Schuyler; Jacobi, Derek; Kanfer, Stefan; Kelly, Michael; Kilmer, Martin F; Lagadec, Patrick; Linton, Ian; Lowry, Malcolm (1909-1957); Marshall, Ian; McNab, Andy; Miller, Karl; Mitchell, Hank; Murakami, Haruki (1949- ); Murdoch, Rupert; Myers, Kenneth N; Nash, Walter; Navrozov, Andrei; Newsome, David; Nicholson, Nancy; O Doherty, Shane Paul; Oppenheimer, Harry; Parker, Alastair; Pascal, Mattia; Perkin, Joan; Petroski, Henry; Pirandello, Luigi; Preston, Paul; Proulx, E Annie; Raymo, Chet; Reuth, Ralf Georg; Rhodes, Cecil; Riding, Laura; Robbins Landon, H C; Roosevelt, Theodore; Routledge, Paul; Salisbury, Harrison; Scargill, Arthur; Schinkel, Karl Friedrich; Smith, Gavin; Smith, Ken; Smith, Scott; Smoot, George; Stockdill, Roy; Taylor, A J P; Taylor, Alan; Tennant, Emma; Thatcher, Margaret H; Updike, John (1932-2009); Vidal, Gore (1925-2012); Walker, Martin; Weaver, Tr William; Wheatcroft, Andrew; Whitebrook, Peter; Williams, Charles; Williams, Marcia; Wilson, James Harold; Wolf, Naomi; Ziegler, Philip; Zohar, Danah
• ISSN: 0951-9467

As a young journalist in London, Worsthorne was inveigled into renting a house he could ill afford by a conman who illegally sublet it several times, plundered the contents, knocked Worsthorne's teeth out and left him with the bill. This Gulley Jimson-like existence drove Worsthorne into the bedroom of one of the tenants: the result was a pregnancy, a near-fatal abortion and a guilty proposal to what sounds like a mostly wretched 40-year marriage.