5th book read in January. This was great fun, echoes of Chekhov, premonitions of Nabokov, and Heller. An Anglo-Russian novelist's darkly comic 1922 debut. Gerhardie was the model for Boyd's writer in Any Human Heart. - ThreadSky

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5th book read in January. This was great fun, echoes of Chekhov, premonitions of Nabokov, and Heller. An Anglo-Russian novelist's darkly comic 1922 debut. Gerhardie was the model for Boyd's writer in Any Human Heart.