'A stunning book. . . . Perhaps the most evocative reminiscence of a vital corner of the nineteen-thirties that we are likely to get. A beautifully written memoir in which the author's location of himself as a man, an intellectual, and a moral being is interwoven with the chronicle...
This book, the autobiographical sequel to his famous A Walker In The City, at once the public and the private portrait of a young intellectual in the heyday of the thirties, and of the artist as a young man, making the traditional discoveries of youth.