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...Malcolm Bradbury would have us believe. A superior comic novelist (his 1976 The History Man may be the funniest English academic novel this side of Lucky Jim), Bradbury is also a hard-working critic, a professor of American studies at the University of East Anglia and, at 55, a man disinclined to suppress the cholers of middle age. Unsent Letters consists of 18 imaginary, therefore utterly forthright, responses to his junk mail...
...Minister Margaret Thatcher's foreign and economic policies tilt to the left, she sounds deeply conservative when she laments the steady disappearance of rural England. She attributes her alertness to these issues, and her deft handling of nuances of social class, to her long association with the rolling East Anglia plains near Colchester, where she now occupies a 16th century farmhouse on twelve acres outside the village of Polstead. A native of East London, where her parents taught school, and then of the near-in Essex suburbs, Rendell has maintained at least a weekend residence in the region for decades...
...when he had to leave the village where he was born. Blythe celebrates all nature except the open sea, which "makes us treacherous; it captures our senses and makes us faithless to the land." Poignantly recalling the turreted manors, the moats and the swans of his own East Anglia, Blythe concludes that he and Clare (along with most of the characters of Thomas Hardy and Emily Brontë) belong to a breed apart, "activated as much by weather and place as by society...
...drop, and the icecap will begin to melt, possibly starting a global warming trend. Other scientists fear that just the opposite may occur: as the flow of warmer fresh water is reduced, the polar ice may expand. In any case, British Climatologist Michael Kelly of the University of East Anglia sees an ironic consequence: changes in polar winds and currents might reduce rainfall in the very regions to benefit from the river...
Throughout, Deighton has fun with the formula without compromising its believability. Hitler's former signalman, for instance, has become an East Anglia chicken farmer, in debt for 2,000 Rhode Island Reds. The directors of M16 and BND-West German intelligence-share a passion for cactus growing, exploring ways to XPD mealy bugs. Finally, Deighton delivers a telling pronouncement. The well-heeled film producer Max Breslow, a former SS officer, notes a wall of video games in a Los Angeles pizzeria. "U-Boat Commander" and "Blitzkrieg" produce a deafening flood of electronic babble. "This...