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By Steven Carroll
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John Sutherland
Weidenfeld & Nicolson $32.99
I suppose it’s inevitable that any biography of Philip Larkin’s long term lover (among the many), should have a pervasive air of grumpy unfulfillment. Monica Jones and Larkin went to Oxford at the same time during the war, but didn’t meet until 1946 when she was teaching at Leicester University and he was the librarian. Sutherland, a student of hers, weaves personal tales and those of others into the story – Jones emerging as a combination of the vivacious, intelligent and stylishly attractive, as well as the acerbic, lonely and racist. She was every bit Larkin’s intellectual match and Sutherland suggests that he would not have become the poet he did if not for her, Larkin’s famous poem,
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