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Article: Michael Frayn Novel Cures Hamptons Disease.(TheFrontPage)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- August 30, 1999
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Byline: Michael M. Thomas
I received a curious "invitation" the other day, on proper cardboard, suitable for propping up on the chimney piece in the best Anglo-phony style. It bore a little drawing of a man, bearded and bespectacled, looking for all the world like the images of Bilbo Baggins one finds in cheap illustrated editions of J.R.R. Tolkien, although wearing a suit and tie instead of doublet, pantaloons and pointy cap. In aspect if not artistic quality, the sketch is reminiscent of the elder Bruegel.
Now, as it happens, I am reading a perfectly wonderful new novel called Headlong by Michael Frayn (Metropolitan Books/Holt) that turns on the ...