GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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The Boston Castrato
by Colin W Sargent
(Barbican Press £9.99)
TO SAY that The Boston Castrato is Colin W Sargent’s interpretation of the great American novel writ small is no criticism.
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