William Leith

The view from the top

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  • Over the Rainbow

    Paul Pickering

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 303

Halfway through this book, the veil lifted, and I thought: ‘I see! I see what he’s trying to do!’ Pickering gets his characters, and moves them along, and then, after 150 pages, he manages to convey a really powerful sensation of something; you might call it amorality, or nihilism, or the sense of the pointlessness of it all.

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