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The Spectator | October 12, 1996| | Copyright

ike those dust-jackets which boast that this or that author has been 'nominated' for the Booker Prize, the dust-jacket of this novel boasts that its author, the Czech writer Josef Skvorecky, was a 1982 Nobel Prize nominee. Many are nominated but few are chosen. Nonetheless, it is not difficult to see from The Bride of Texas how Skvorecky might still be seen as a Nobel Prize candidate. Here is a book which is 'big', not merely in size but also in grandeur, complexity and variety of theme. It is executed with an unflagging energy.

Unfortunately, there are times when, wilting under Skvorecky's ...

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