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In Lives in Writing, David Lodge writes about Pico Iyer writing about Graham Greene, and about Martin Stannard writing about Muriel Spark, and so on...

From left to right: Graham Greene, Muriel Spark and H.G. Wells [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]
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  • Lives in Writing

    David Lodge

    Harvill Secker, pp. 262

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