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...It’s the tragedy of the Tolliver family, whose eccentricity is charted over four generations in John Wray’s clever, compelling novel, that they not only choose the latter path but also doggedly pursue it...
...The Lost Time Accidents, by John Wray, Canongate, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$27 Narrator Waldy Tolliver writes to his great love, partly to explain his forebears’ eccentric obsession with...
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...Mister Pip By Lloyd Jones John Murray £12.99, 223 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 On a tiny island in Papua New Guinea, civil war has scared away all the teachers....
...In Maupin’s latest book, Michael Tolliver Lives, the hero complains about the small-town politics of some of those who flock to the Castro today....
...Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia By John Gray Allen Lane £18.99, 256 pages FT bookshop price: £15.19 John Gray’s book charts Utopianism’s declining trajectory from Jesus to Stalin...
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