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Article: The boy who tried to lose himself in literature. (book review)
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 18, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: JANE SHILLING
THE CHILD THAT BOOKS BUILT: A Memoir of Childhood and Reading by Francis Spufford (Faber, [pound]12.99)
(Faber, [pound]12.99) JANE SHILLING The boy who tried to lose himself in literature www.thisislondon.co.uk/books
IN a western world that grows child-friendly to the point of imbecility, we are quiveringly alert to the countless ways in which children manifest distress. Whether the symptom takes the form of impertinence, waywardness or violence, the diagnosis is much the same: these behaviours are interpreted as mute forms of eloquence, oblique ways of communicating to adults the fact that some little soul is out of ...
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