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Sound of the city: Hugh Collins on a modern world still looking very much like a man's world
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MAN describing his being in a lousy modern world; did you catch
the discussion of the book in Late Review? Yes, yet another novel
about man's instinct for hunting game being diminished, his days of
planting seed scuppered, cutting wood and toting guns on adventure
quests reduced to shooting hoofless burgers on a trip to McDonald's -
maybe the old ways were less threatening, with the occasional back-
hander to keep her in line?
In a week that saw a schoolteacher jailed for battering to death
his wife - 70 times he hit her with an iron bar - I'd be pushing it
to hit a punchbag that long, let ...
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