W. Cooper, Scenes from provincial life (1950)
P.K. Dick, Maze of death* (1970)
P. Suskind, Perfume (1985)S.S. Tepper, Singer from the Sea (2000)
L. Thomas, The Lives of a cell (1974)
Nothing really to see here. I was underwhelmed by Perfume and this was the worst Tepper I have read. Both were good, I simply expected more. As with Lewis Thomas' collection of essays, which are really designed to be digested slowly; they felt disjointed when read in a couple of sittings. Rayner, similarly short, was punchier, more coherent and a good read. He's also been reading the same books as me. (I note that despite him also being struck by Michael Pollan's assertion that KFC ran an ad campaign with the slogan Women's Liberation [from cooking], I can''t find it. Though this is close). Worth a read. It was a perfect Christmas present.
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