GOOD WINE
THE TAPESTRY BED, By Louise de Vilmorin. Eyre and Spottiswoode, HIS is a fortunate translation, a story which strikes the happiest possible balance between fantasy and realism. Louise de Vilmorin has an enviable narrative skill. The reader is delighted by the clarity and definiteness of this book, which illustrates once again the continuing vitality of the modern French novel. The story of a great *deception, of the prison governor who steals the work of the prisoner-com-poser tormented by hopeless love and masquerades himself as a great musician, it is well kept up, never flags. Only the tragic ending takes us outside the atmosphere of easy comedy of most of the book. It is mildly amusing to find it closing so precisely as: "3.48 p.m. 7 Jan. 1947."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 20
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129GOOD WINE New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 20
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