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...Ed Crooks, reviewing in the FT, said that by focusing on the characters at the centre of the phenomenon, Zuckerman had managed to tell “a classic American story” of creativity, bravado and the quest for...
...Mackenzie Crook, luminously pale and spectrally slight as Jasper, suggests an incoherent rage and despair at his circumstances that all his beat-poet writing cannot express or offset....
...But Edwin’s guardian, John Jasper, lusts after Rosa. Jasper also has a taste for opium. Edwin disappears without trace. Has Jasper murdered him? At this point the novel breaks off....
...The role of the special advisers was thrown into the limelight at the beginning of the campaign following a series of allegations, published by the Evening Standard newspaper, against Lee Jasper, the mayor...
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