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It’s grim up north: Malc’s Boy, by Shaun Wilson, reviewed

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By Nicholas Lezard Verified
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Malc’s Boy Conduit Books, pp.334, 12.99 Shaun Wilson’s latest novel gets going with a childhood recalled like James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and it is one marred by violence. Oh here we go again, I thought, as the young Shaun is thumped repeatedly by his enraged father Malc. Every novel I review these days seems to be about a working-class lad with a violent father from, say, north of Birmingham.
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The Gropes of Roth - Nicholas Lezard reviews Stung by Life by Steven J Zipperstein

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By Nicholas Lezard Verified
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Do we need another biography of Philip Roth? You may well ask. There was Blake Bailey’s 898-page official and generally praised one in 2021. Then there was its baby brother, by a month and 350-odd pages, by Ira Nadel. There’s Roth’s own autobiography – not forgetting the number of times Roth, or more often a character very much like him, appears in his own fiction. Enough already? Well, no, not really.
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An unconventional orphan: Queen Esther, by John Irving, reviewed

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Queen Esther Scribner, pp.432, 22 Back in the 1980s and 1990s everyone read John Irving, or so it seemed. You had to have a copy of A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire and The Cider House Rules. After a while even the most obtuse reader realised that a novel by John Irving was very likely to contain elements that had appeared in other John Irving novels.
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