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Biting the hand that rarely paid for lunch

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From: The Spectator
Date: 19981205
Author:Raphael, Frederic

Biting the hand that rarely paid for lunch

Frederic Raphael

SIR VIDIA'S SHADOW

by Paul Theroux

Hamish Hamilton, 17.99, pp. 376

Writers friendships are often written on water; their enmities are chiselled in stone. Disillusionment and betrayal are harpies that sup on scraps. Dickens broke with Thackeray; Wain with Amis; Scott Fitzgerald with Hemingway. Ernest was probably the shittiest of the breed: he viciously parodied his mentor, Sherwood Anderson, for the trivially pressing reason that he needed to get out of a contract with the publisher they shared. In Madrid, during the Spanish ...

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