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Maggie puts milk in the microwave tries to heat up pies in the fridge, thinks the day centre staff
are work colleagues being kind
Convinced that she is still earning a useful living, contributing as she has
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BOOK REVIEWS Continued
The arrival of the 70s brings a sense of relief, coupled With longing at the mention of such gems as Koiak lollies, Aztecs and Cadbury's Nunch. Sweet Talk is irreverent, at times meandering, but for those who pine for the days when a sweet sliop was a sweet shop and not neatly stacked and corporately-branded, it’s a real Walnut Whip, (AS)
ECONOMICS SATIRE PJ. O'Rourke Eat The Rich (Picador £16.99) '
Not a lot of many people know that, after Oscar Wilde, Pl. O'Rourke is the most quoted Wit in The Oxford Dictionary Of Humorous Ot/otati’ons While many View IIIITI as Tom Wolfe \‘JIIIIOUI the humanity, he has Wielded equal inches of column space to rile the right and lampoon the left
In his latest assault on society’s structures, Eat The Rich looks at the compleXities of finance, posing the question 'why do some places prosper and thrive while others Just suck7' And so PJ. spent a couple of years searching for the economical truth, analysing the likes of Cuba, Albania, l-Iong Kong and Wall Street to find out whose system is least flawed.
While O’Rourke is as readable as ever,
the problem, and Just one of the differences between him and Mr Wilde, is that you can see the Jokes comiin many a mile off, Give him his own chat show and be done with it. ‘80)
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Charles Bukowski - Locked In The Arms Of A Crazy Life
Howard Sounes (Rebel Inc £16.99)
In a world of counterfeit emotion and discounted souls, Charles ’Hank’ Bukowski was a man whose writing bled its way onto the page, Seven novels and countless volumes of poetry chronicled 73 years, manon which he spent as a tick on the underbelly of the ATTIQTICOI‘ Dream, His tales were of cheap apartments, menial JObS, doomed relationships and an ocean of booze. Like Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Bukowski’s blues were more often than not the sc reaming reds.
Sounes' book is assiduoust researched and simply told in a style that allows the full complexin of the writer’s personality to unravel Astonishingly focused as an artist, if frequently flawed as a human being, Bukowski is certainly one of the few American artists this century deserVing of the label 'genius'. He died in I994 leaVing a WIdOW, six cats, a million fans and far more than his fair share of beautiful words. (RE)
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