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...LAST HOURS OF SANDRA LEE (254 pp.)-William Sansom- Little, Brown...
What happened in that cosmic bacchanal to Sandra Lee and her colleagues at the cosmetic company is the sum and substance of this novel by William Sansom, a versatile British writer of travel books (The Icicle and the Sun), novels (The Loving Eye) short stories and TV plays...
...Cautious Heart is British Novelist Sansom's fifth novel (among the others: The Loving Eye). It is sage, funny, benign and stamped with Sansom's special mastery of situations in which sex, humor and sympathy fight for supremacy in a human battle that never ends...
...CAUTIOUS HEART (186 pp.)-William Sansom-Reynal...
...story after story, Sansom demonstrates his special ability for staging Grand Guignol within the puppet-sized theater of the short story. He can write about the rivalry of two barbers, in Impatience, without giving the reader the feeling that he has just dropped in for a quick shave; the scene in which the barbers take to each other with straight razors evokes the violence of the London slums in a specially horrible way. And On Stony Ground introduces a wistful clerk who has only two window boxes, but each day he buys a packet of seeds; his predicament is comic...