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Fife, Graeme

Graeme Fife has written plays, stories, features and talks for BBC Radio and has broadcast on the World Service. His books include Tour de France: The History, the Legend, the Riders and The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine, France 1792–1794, soon to be published in America.

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Going West

Graeme Fife on the novels of Nathanael West

For most of 1988 I moved about London, from house-sit to house-sit, transporting all the essentials of my life and trade in a 2CV: typewriter, reference books, minimal wardrobe. At some point during that nomadic interlude, a friend of someone I hardly knew asked me pointedly whether I had read the works of Nathanael West, hinting that if I hadn’t I ought to. Perhaps he judged West’s acerbic satire of disillusion and forlorn hope peculiarly apt to the mild chaos of my existence. So I bought a copy of Nathanael West’s complete works and read them, straight through.

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