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Article: Affairs of the heart. (book review)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2001
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Byline: RACHEL CUSK
SEBASTIAN Faulks's new novel is set in America in the run-up to the election of President Kennedy, and follows a formula that will by now be familiar to his readers, whereby political and emotional events are drama-tised in tandem, the second usually occurring as a response to the pressure of the first. Faulks is apparently drawn to the romance of such occasions, and it is not hard to see why. War of any sort, whether First, Second or Cold, makes available to the novelist certain resources that are harder to come by in peacetime.
It is not just the stuff of history that keeps Faulks's pages turning: his portraits of human ...