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Summer 1992
Richard Ford’s womanizer is an insistently ordinary man — until he goes abroad. Paul Theroux’s ‘imaginary’ young American novelist loses his self-control in London. William T. Vollmann, alone in the wilderness with Erica, risks losing his life for her. Plus: Nadine Gordimer, André Brink, and Richard Rayner.
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The Womanizer
Richard Ford
‘Austin turned up the tiny street – rue Sarrazin – at the head of which he hoped he would come to a larger one, one he knew, rue de Vaugirard, possibly, which he could take all the way to Josephine Belliard's apartment by the Luxembourg Gardens.’
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Lady Max
Paul Theroux
‘You didn't become a Londoner simply by living there. After seven years I was still an alien.’
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An Afghanistan Picture Show
William T. Vollmann
‘The windbreakers of the passengers standing at the rail fluttered violently.’
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Einstein in Bern
Alan Lightman
‘Einstein and Besso walk slowly down Speichergasse in the late afternoon.’
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Afrikaners and the Future
André Brink
‘What is the future of Afrikaners in South Africa?’
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Die Hel
David Goldblatt
‘Die Hel is a remote valley in the Swartburg Mountains of the south-western Cape.’
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Look-Alikes
Nadine Gordimer
‘It was scarcely worth noticing at first; an out-of-work lying under one of the rare indigenous shrubs cultivated by the Botany Department on the campus.’
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The Mississippi Delta
Ken Light
‘In the last three years I have driven along some of the smaller, less-travelled roads of the Mississippi Delta.’
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Los Angeles
Richard Rayner
‘Los Angeles was a lot like South Africa. The apartheid wasn't enshrined by law, but by economics and geography, and it was just as powerful.’
