Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics and Culture Hashim Shafiq the egg and spoon race

the egg and spoon race to the Cup Final

With her pretty chin

including one short lyric where floodwater puddles seem to resemble war-torn continents

Here is the brilliantly observed clutter and comedy of everyday lives

Radical Twenties: Writing, Politics and Culture Hashim Shafiq the egg and spoon race'What is particularly valuable in this book is the attention Lucas gives to a number of texts from the 1920s that have had less attention than they deserve in literary critical accounts of the decade the dust jacket photograph of Nan Youngman in 1926 with cigarette and guitar, so wonderfully evocative of the spirit Lucas respects and consistently carries forward in his writing' MLR