Slumber room, then paradise

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Slumber Room, then Paradise

Evelyn Waugh’s pitiless vision of a Los Angeles cemetery

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The TLS Magazine

16 August, 2024

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In brief

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A question of inheritance

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Back to the bardo

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Literary associations

A letter, a book and two paintings by Tracey Emin; right, Ruth Fairlight’s copy of The Colossus Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe were both in their twenties when they met in a bookshop in Nottingham.