Volume 22, Number 19 · November 27, 1975
Working Up Work
By Frank Kermode
Work and Play: Ideas and Experience of Work and Leisure
by Alasdair Clayre
Harper & Row, 217 pp., $11.00
Here is a book on a subject of obvious importance; it is based on serious though unobtrusive research and meditation; and it is written in a lucid and unaffected style. Reading the early pages one has little doubt that one is in for a quite memorable course of instruction, and that one had better be thinking of the appropriate ways of celebrating an investigator of insight and originality. However, something goes wrong: the author's hand, elegantly opened, stays open, the fist is never made, and the material dribbles away.
Review, 1817 words
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