The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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.
By focusing largely on a specific location in a single year, and compressing the narrative into less than 300 pages, Sargent amplifies the tumult of individual lives as a reflection of the dominating forces of migration, crime and cultural experimentation that define them.
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