Jonathan Raban - Inspiration and Writing Style

Inspiration and Writing Style

  • Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
  • Summer Lightning by PG Wodehouse
  • Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh
  • The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows by Philip Larkin
  • Collected Poems by Robert Lowell
Mr. Raban's ... style ... can be described as a sort of English Capote: vivid, funny, accurate, full of hyperbolic wit and outrageous metaphor; no reticence at all. But at least as important is the author's ability to make an instant connection with virtually any human being whomsoever. Noel Perrin, New York Times

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