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Sunday, August 23, 2015
The Russian Girl
This Kingsley Amis novel puts things into evidence that have not been proven -- the love affair at its heart makes little sense -- but the writer's wit, which evokes an amalgam of Evelyn Waugh and Tom Sharpe, overcomes all.
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