John Wain, who died a few years ago, is now all but forgotten, but he wrote many fine novels, including this one. It's inspired by his own visit to the USSR, who thought, given Wain's reputation as an "angry young man", that he'd be more sympathetic to Communism than he actually was. Anyway, in this novel, the young visitors are from Russia, visiting Britain. Wain mines much dry humour from this situation, not least when an English Communist Trade Unionist comes to face with some real examples of practical communism.
Ben Turnbull, the hero of John Updike's eighteenth novel, is a sixty-six-year-old retired investment counselor living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and Ch...
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