Cuckoo in the Nest
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Cover Story
The January cover of BfK features an illustration from No More Television!, the latest title from Philippe Dupasquier who is the subject of this month's Authorgraph. The book is published by Andersen Press and we're grateful to them for their help in using this on our front cover.
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Cuckoo in the Nest
The eye-strainingly small print of this long book seems to be breaking new ground in testing the perseverance of readers in getting at a good story. This is the lovingly recreated tale of a theatre during the winter of 1946-7 with working-class Ralph struggling to get a break as an actor. It's very enjoyable and the lives of the family and the day-to-day work on the productions are finely detailed. It is, in many ways, its own play, full of drama, pathos and grand scenes, dominated by heroes threatened briefly by villains.
