Volume 27, Number 7 · May 1, 1980
Hate in a Cold Climate
By John Thompson
A Married Man
by Piers Paul Read
Lippincott, 264 pp., $10.95
The Pornographer
by John McGahern
Harper & Row, 252 pp., $10.00
'To understand the story which follows,' says the author's note to Piers Paul Read's seventh novel, A Married Man, 'the reader should know a little about the English legal profession.' A solicitor prepares a defense brief for the accused. A barrister wigged and gowned pleads this case in court. And a barrister may rise to one of those adornments of his name that the English love, trailing the initials of Queen's Counsel.
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