Volume 31, Number 16 · October 25, 1984
Hard Times
By Jonathan Raban
English Journey
by J.B. Priestley
University of Chicago Press, 320 pp., $24.95
English Journey, or The Road to Milton Keynes
by Beryl Bainbridge
Braziller, 158 pp., $12.95
All through the past summer in England we were getting someone else's weather and someone else's news. On television the freakish sun, falling from a bold blue sky, lit the glittering lines of police riot shields. Beyond them picketing miners dressed in pastel nylon summer clothes, were hurling rocks, bottles, pieces of timber. A close-up picked out a handsome young policeman, apparently battering the brains out of a striking miner with his club. The whole scene looked surreal—an engagement between well-drilled Romans and angry Visigoths.
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