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Article: A Soho stalwart
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- July 19, 2008
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SELECTED LETTERS by Julian Maclaren-Ross, edited by Paul Willetts Black Spring Press, £9.95, pp. 351 ISBN 9780948238383 £7.85 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
Like Angus Wilson, Julian MaclarenRoss immediately grabbed the attention of Forties reviewers and readers with a series of short stories at once ruthlessly observant and irresistibly entertaining. However, unlike Wilson, admirably self-disciplined in the organisation of a career that eventually carried him to the centre of the literary establishment, Maclaren-Ross, alcoholic and wasteful of his gifts, soon drifted to its periphery. It is only recently that he has come once more to be recognised as a writer of the stature of ...
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