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NOTHING IS NICER THAN NASTINESS
Novelist Martin Amis celebrates England as one great slag heap
November
1
1980
JAMES WOLCOTT
David Levine
NOTHING IS NICER THAN NASTINESS
JAMES WOLCOTT
November
1
1980
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NOTHING IS NICER THAN NASTINESS
Novelist Martin Amis celebrates England as one great slag heap
November
1
1980
JAMES WOLCOTT
David Levine
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