![]() ![]() ![]() The Potato by Larry Zuckerman (Pan, £6.99, 304pp) Unlikely though it may sound, the potato has inspired a fascinating work. King is a super articulate canine who lives with his master and mistress, Vico and Vica - a couple who do daily battle with the hopelessness that begins "when you cannot imagine anything ever being dry again" - in a corrugated iron hut While Berger hints at the possibility that King isn't really a dog, but a mutt-like human, it makes no difference to the subsequent discourse whether he walks on two legs or four. The book's narrator is a philosophising dog called King. His latest novel is set on the edges of a particularly ugly urban sprawl, a cardboard shanty town called St Valery, caught between a four lane super strada and the sea. King by John Berger (Bloomsbury, £6.99, 231pp) Art critic, novelist, philosopher, sociologist and Alpine-dweller John Berger has never been a fan of cities or urban ways, though he seems to have a soft spot for bikers and lorry drivers. ![]()
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