A novel first published by Eyre Methuen and Penguin in 1972, and by Chatto & Windus in 1981, telling of how Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to complete the novel he started ten years earlier, and how he is influenced by a black soul writer. In the VINTAGE CLASSICS series.

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"One of the best writers in the English language-His work embeds itself in one's consciousness and refuses to be dislodged" (Sunday Times)

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