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In the following review, Cross offers tempered assessment of The Birthday Boys.
Well into the 1960s, my schoolmasters solemnly taught that Amundsen—he merited neither rank nor Christian name&#x...
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In the following review, Drabelle offers favorable assessment of The Birthday Boys.
Fifteen years ago an iconoclast struck what may be the most telling blow to an English reputation since Lytton Strac...
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In the following review, Krist offers favorable assessment of The Birthday Boys.
“All Englishmen are virtuous,” wrote George Orwell in his novel Burmese Days—“when they are...
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In the following review, Schaffer offers positive assessment of The Birthday Boys.
Nothing punishes like the cold. If you doubt this, remember how miserable you felt just a few months ago when winter ...
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In the following review, Gamerman offers praise for The Birthday Boys.
The Antarctica of Beryl Bainbridge's novel The Birthday Boys is a land of “ice not really blue at all but shot thro...
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In the following review, Freeman offers favorable assessment of The Birthday Boys.
The Birthday Boys, a new novel by the English author Beryl Bainbridge, is an imagined account of Capt. Robert Falcon ...
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In the following review, Spufford offers favorable evaluation of The Birthday Boys.
My grandmother was born in March 1911, the month in which this novel starts. Its famous events, then, are still in o...
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In the following review Linklater offers praise for The Birthday Boys.
The fall of a hero produces a curiously intense sensation—a surge of libertarian delight pitted against pangs of filial an...
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Critical Review by Michael Cross
