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Review
"'It was the summer of 1986, and everywhere there were cuts.' So begins the author in a spoof of Thatcher's England. Cuts in industry, cuts in science, cuts in the arts. It was a time, the author tells us, when the 'old soft illusions' were being replaced by the 'new hard illusions.' This is the story of what happens when a writer who teaches night school, one Henry Babbacombe, is called to the glass towers of Eldorado Television. The satire is often very funny, though its effect is limited, since the novel has the effect almost of a verbal comic strip." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)