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Sunday 01 January 2006

How can you tell the writer is American?

As enthralling as the events of his life undoubtedly were, is there anything new to say?

Michael Saler, reviewing Dane Kennedy's biography of Richard Burton ( The Highly Civilized Man [Harvard, 2005]) in the Times Literary Supplement (9 December 2005) p. 16

In Europe, order from alapage.com

Contributed by Andrew Dalby. Posted at 10:30
Categories: Use of language