Volume 34, Number 6 · April 9, 1987

Country Life

By John Bayley
The Enigma of Arrival
by V.S. Naipaul

Knopf, 354 pp., $17.95

In his long, still much undervalued poem The Age of Anxiety, W.H. Auden's heroine in New York likes to imagine 'one of those lovely innocent countrysides' that are 'familiar to all readers of English detective stories.'



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