Volume 23, Number 12 · July 15, 1976
Coming Up for Air
By Frank Kermode
Sweet William
by Beryl Bainbridge
Braziller, 204 pp., $7.95
Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Harper & Row, 181 pp., $7.95
Selected Stories
by Nadine Gordimer
Viking, 381 pp., $10.00
Jill
by Philip Larkin
The Overlook Press, 247 pp., $8.95
These are all pretty good books, or better than that; and all of them deal, though of course in very different ways as varying talents and interests dictate, with the constraints and distortions inflicted on individuals by society—and especially by forms of it that derive from the historical circumstances of British culture.
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