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Side Stories - A D Harvey

Side Stories

By: A D Harvey

14 January 2020

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In 2013 more than eighty Internet sites round the world took up the story of A.D.Harvey''s literary spoofs following his outing in The Times Literary Supplement, thereby further outraging an academic establishment which had had it in for him ever since he had broken ranks by obtaining a Ph.D. at Cambridge only six years after sitting his A-levels. The author of eight scholarly monographs, numerous articles in academic quarterlies, three novels and a slim volume of verse, A.D.Harvey is (despite occasional spoofs) a serious if sometimes idiosyncratic writer and his gift for style, cogency and psychological insight is demonstrated by a collection of his short stories and other pieces now published under the title Side Stories by Mandrake of Oxford.
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Eric Naiman, a Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Berkeley, in a six-page attack on A. D. Harvey’s multitudinous literary crimes in The Times Literary Supplement, described Harvey’s account of drug-taking and other shenanigans in London and the Swedish Arctic in his novel Mind-Sprung  as “unreadable”, but perhaps that was because he hadn’t actually read it. Another of A. D. Harvey’s novels, Warriors Of The Rainbow was described by The Guardian as “weirdly compelling”, by The Times as “intriguing .... both awe-inspiring and, frankly, potty” and by The Independent as “free-flowing and poetic …. unforgettable.” His short stories, many of them erotic, some of them distinctly odd, and a couple downright lewd, are collected here for the first time, together with half a dozen other pieces that shed light on one of the less conventional scholarly careers of recent times.

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