"Throw Me to the Wolves" by Patrick McGuinness, Bloomsbury. 349 pp. $27 Patrick McGuinness has won numerous prizes in England, both for his first novel, "The Last Hundred Days," and for his collections of poetry. If you poke around online you might come across his little poem "Daytime Drinking," which offers a useful warning. The first drink, he tells us, is "gentle as a stream." The second is "firm as a leg-iron clasp." The third, finally, is "sudden as the trap door [...]
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