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Absent presences; in a new novel, an Englishman returns to a childhood summer.('Spies')
Bernard Shaw couldn't do it, Henry James couldn't do it, but the ingenious English author Michael Frayn does do it: write novels and plays with equal success. His most recent play, "Copenhagen," about a problematical meeting in 1941 between the physicist Werner Heisenberg and his Danish mentor Niels Bohr, won three Tony Awards and ran on Broadway for more than nine months; his 1999 novel, "Headlong," concerning the possible discovery of a lost painting by Bruegel, was listed among the Booker Prize finalists and the Times Book Review's Editors' Choices. Frayn began light, writing topical and humorous columns for the Guardian, but has extended his reach and seriousness ...
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