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1985

Barbara Comyns: The Juniper Tree

February 8, 2018 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Barbara Comyn’s dark 1985 novel, The Juniper Tree, which Comyn’s wrote in her late 70s. The book was recently published in a new edition by NYRB Classics.

Categories Barbara Comyns, Book Reviews Tags 1980s, 1985 2 Comments

László Krasznahorkai: Satantango

February 20, 2018April 24, 2013 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews László Krasznahorkai’s debute novel,
Satantango, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes.

Categories Book Reviews, László Krasznahorkai Tags 1980s, 1985, Hungarian 12 Comments

Jane Gardam: Crusoe’s Daughter

July 18, 2016June 1, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Jane Gardam’s Crusoe’s Daughter. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Jane Gardam Tags 1980s, 1985, Europa Editions 7 Comments

Gert Hofmann: The Parable of the Blind

July 6, 2016July 26, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Gert Hofmann’s The Parable of the Blind, translated from the German by Christopher Middleton. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Gert Hofmann Tags 1980s, 1985, German 5 Comments

Ah Cheng: The King of Trees

June 17, 2016August 9, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Ah Cheng’s The King of Trees, translated from the Chinese by Bonnie S. McDougall. Read the full post.

Categories Ah Cheng, Book Reviews Tags 1984, 1985, Chinese, New Directions 15 Comments

Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West

June 9, 2016March 30, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Cormac McCarthy Tags 1980s, 1985 27 Comments

Philip Roth: The Prague Orgy

September 23, 2017August 1, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Philip Roth’s coda to his first three Zuckerman books, The Prague Orgy.

Categories Book Reviews, Philip Roth Tags 1980s, 1985 Leave a comment

Graham Greene: The Tenth Man

September 23, 2017July 28, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Graham Greene’s short The Tenth Man.

Categories Book Reviews, Graham Greene Tags 1980s, 1985 6 Comments
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