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MAURICE RICHARDSON

Bruce Chatwin is an original: laconic, wistful, sweet and sour, detached and sympathetic, with a sharp eye for the curious. [In the travel book In Patagonia, he] writes very well indeed in a clear, streamlined, educated cis-Atlantic style that reminds you a little of Evelyn Waugh. He has a special gift for catching the genius loci of this strange springboard into the Void. (p. 550)

Maurice Richardson, "Walkabout," in New Statesman (© 1977 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), Vol. 94, No. 2431, October 21, 1977, pp. 550-51.∗

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2. Maurice Richardson
3. Malcolm Deas
4. Hilton Kramer
5. Alastair Reid
6. Eve Auchincloss
7. Brian Martin
8. Mary Hope
9. Victoria Glendinning
10. John Hemming
11. John Thompson
12. Richard Hall
13. Anne DuchêNe
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