Some
responses to CYCLOMOTORS:
"An
excellently-written little book."
Terry Eagleton
"I
think Cyclomotors is my best book of 1997 and a real bit of
quality in a fairly bleak landscape."
Michael
Moorcock
"It's
a wonderful book - marvellously constructed, and of a fidelity to experience
such as you only come across with a true storyteller -
as distinct from
word spinner!
John Berger
"I like it very much.
More power to your writing hand."
Harold Pinter
"Nothing I have previously read has captured so well the atmosphere
of growing up on the edges of London in the immediate post-second world
war years as John Muckle's Cyclomotors.
An elegant book."
Tom Raworth
"... Tom Raworth puts it all so much better than I ever could.
The illustrations are beautiful. Did I ever tell you about the character
Mr. Muckle in W.C. Fields' greatest film 'It's a Gift'? He's a comic
blind man who manages to all but demolish Fields' general store. Fields
keeps trying to restrain him by calling him: 'Mr Muckle Honey' –
a bit of political incorrectness that would be inconceivable today."
John Ashbery
