SOURCE: “If the French Were Shorter in Flaubert's Day, Did They Need to Be Less Fat in Order to Be Called ‘Fat’?” in London Review of Books, Vol. 18, January 4, 1996, p. 22.
In the following review, Furbank calls Cross Channel “perhaps Barnes's most assured work so far.”
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