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roba's review
4.0
The Lichtenstein bits are an urgent, increasingly personal and moving detective story (and done at about the last possible time when you had to use phone calls, archives and randomly bumping into people to find stuff out). I ended up skipping the Iain Sinclair bits (like most people, judging by reviews) – in theory, I should like him, but his incessant layering of London feel stuffy and oppressive to me, whereas Peter Ackroyd manages to make that kind thing exuberant. Not sure why he's all over this, to be honest, I guess he wrote an introduction that Could Not Be Stopped.
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