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PIECEWORK.(Quicksands)(Book Review)

The New Yorker

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The English novelist Sybille Bedford is more than a novelist. She worked as a court reporter, covering notorious trials--the case of Stephen Ward, the society doctor at the center of the Profumo scandal, in London in 1963; the trial of Jack Ruby, in Dallas in 1964; the proceedings against twenty-two members of the Auschwitz staff, in Frankfurt from 1963 to 1965--for magazines such as Esquire and Life. She also produced articles on food and wine. She was a travel writer, too, zooming around Europe to report back--again, for big magazines--on the shopwindows of Zurich and the sixteen lakes of Plitvice. Often, she blended the subjects of travel and food. To her, it seems, ...

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