A fortnight ago Sam Leith, reviewing Neil Powell’s book on the Amises, father and son, wrote:
Powell is insistent — and for all I know dead right, but that’s hardly the point — that Kingsley was a sufferer from depression. Of the last sentence of The Anti-Death League (‘There isn’t anywhere to be.’),
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