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'Lies, lies, lies!'
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LORD BYRON'S JACKAL: A LIFE OF EDWARD TRELAWNY by David Crane
HarperCollins, L19.99, pp. 398
Book reviewers are damned for ever in the celebrated definition of them as `lice on the locks of literature'. These, however, are not the only form of human infestation battening on creative genius. Think of the adoring acolytes, the groupies, the wouldbe inheritors of the sacred mantle, whose flattery operates on the writer like a slow poison. Or consider that type of detestable harpy, the author's widow, wallowing in his royalties even as she doctors his reputation, burning sheaves of letters and ...
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