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There is much to enjoy in this book: it is racily picaresque, energetic and clever.

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2013

A racily conversational prose-puncher, a "critic" who makes you stop, look & listen by the amusing mock-violence of her own irrelevant reactions, Mrs. Parker has written, in Laments for the Living, some first-rate dialogs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Written in Author Seabrook's usual man-to-mannish style, The White Monk of Timbuctoo is a racily sympathetic account of an unusual career.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this authoritative but racily written biography Author Fa� takes the lid off a period of U. S. history that has long been simmering in academic ovens, dishes it up with spicy Gallic sauce.

From Time Magazine Archive

This recognition from the distinguished Irish poet tempts me to hint at the cosmopolitan aspects of such racily local art as Mr. Lindsay's.

From The Congo and Other Poems by Lindsay, Vachel