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The recipes themselves are authentic. but workable. although a couple of them would be simplified by their creation in Perigord. or Brittany or wherever — my local
butcher doesn‘t stock wild boar — but
this is a minor carp (or pike. or.lohn Dory?)
Describing his readers as his ‘little gastronauts'. and wine bar Quiche Lorraine as a ‘belly-chilling travesty'. Keith Floyd‘s book is a reflection of his passion for France and. naturally. for food.
(Marina ()'I-aughlan)
0 Social Disease Paul Rudnick (Penguin £3.50). This is certainly the book of the word. And the word is ‘Darling'. Manhattan's spoilt brats bash out ZZZZZs all day. crawl from bed at dusk. tog themselves up in feathers. finery. rubber and anything else and take taxis to the exclusive (‘lub de. 'l‘here they gush. coo and simper over each other's clothes or lack of them. When the drinking. dancing and gossiping is done. the trendies disperse to various dark corners to concentrate on undressing. If it sounds like your average Saturday night. it would nonetheless be difficult to be as vacuous as this lot.
Gormless (iuy is our hero. He faces the shock-horror prospect of having to get a job. Venice is his
luscious new wife who prefaces every
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sentence with voluptuous ‘darlings‘. Licky Banes is their maid with a predilection for body-building gymnasts in toilet cubicles. All in all. they're an odd-ball bunch. Rudnick's observations are sharp and incisiver expose the traumas of being an air-head. (iuy has been rudely awakened in daylight. l’oor (iuy. ‘(iuy dragged himself from the bedroom. lle llinched at the virulent sunshine streaming through the many windows. Luckily. (iuy had fallen asleep with his sunglasses still in place. so he didn‘t stumble. Except for the glasses. (iuy was naked.‘ (Kristina Woolnough)
0 Overhead in a Balloon Mavis Gallant (Jonathan Cape. f ‘ ".95) Set in a strangely timeless Paris. (iallant's collection of short stories are tales of quiet feud and manipulation; of powerful undercurrents beneath deceptive banality.
With a fine touch in irony and caustic understatement she presents a string of double—edged figures. such as Speck. dyspeptic gallery owner. whose brightest idea is stolen by an artist's saccharine-sickly widow; Walter. his assistant. consumed by a hatred for his employer which. along with warped religious obsession. is his dismal raison d'etre: and Lena. beautiful .lewess. whose insidious influence on her first husband. Edouard and his second wife. is subtly whispered
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