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Francis KingPosted at 10:08PM Monday 04 Jul 2011 Francis King, who died on July 3 aged 88, was among the most distinguished and highly-regarded novelists of our time.His 28 novels show a recurring fascination with the louche and the bizarre, which he would sometimes introduce casually, but with shocking effect, in the course of an otherwise urbanely careful narrative. It was a characteristic which they shared with those of Ivy Compton-Burnett, whom he knew well and greatly admired, though she could never have entertained his obsession with physical, often sexual, detail.
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