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CIRCUS OF DREAMS: Adventures in the literary jungle 1978-1992, by John Walsh (Hachette, $65 hb)

his jungle, it should be explained, is the British one. Americans figure, but very few, and even fewer of others. Nonetheless, it will be of interest to bookish people, serious readers who like to “keep up”, who attend our own book festivals in large numbers and become a crowd whenever there is an overseas “celebrity”. If any one of Amis, Atwood, Ballard, Barnes, Burgess, Byatt,

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