Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics and Culture Hashim Shafiq Abdallah Laroui: Excerpt from the

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a feminist-fabulist whose work combines the fantastic and the prosaic

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Here is the brilliantly observed clutter and comedy of everyday lives

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Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics and Culture Hashim Shafiq Abdallah Laroui: Excerpt from the'What is particularly valuable in this book is the attention Lucas gives to a number of texts from the 1920s that have had less attention than they deserve in literary critical accounts of the decade the dust jacket photograph of Nan Youngman in 1926 with cigarette and guitar, so wonderfully evocative of the spirit Lucas respects and consistently carries forward in his writing' MLR