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DJ Taylor Picks Infants of the Spring January 21, 2004 00:00 |
DJ Taylor (who spoke at the Balliol conference) has picked Infants of the Spring as one of his 10 "Books for Orwell Lovers" in today's Guardian newspaper. Taylor says that, "Powell was one of Orwell's greatest friends, and kept a close eye on him for the last 10 years of his life. This [book] contains one of the best sketches of him ever written, including a deeply weird account of our man, invited to inspect Powell's infant son John, absent-mindedly leaving a nine-inch Bowie knife in the cradle."
Taylor wrote Orwell: The Life which has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and is eligible for the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year award.
[With thanks to Stephen Holden]
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