It's a sombre note on which to end, so I ask him what was the best review he ever had. He remembers a few, the Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek and Business Week. But (about Cutter and Bone) "especially the one in the New Yorker which said , 'a commanding writer, of unusual power and delicacy.' I can put that on my tombstone," he adds. From five thousand miles across the Atlantic, surely I sense a faint smile of satisfaction?

Etwas unheimliches Genre des Telefon-Lebensend- Altenheim- Werkstattgesprächs.

[Meine Kritik zu Cutter and Bone]