THE CAMEL'S HUMP
THE NEEDLE’S EYE. By Timothy Pember. Jonathon Cape. HIS. is an attractive and sensitive novel, whose characters are well drawn, at least on one of the levels at which the writer scrutinises them. If it were simply a novel about people, The Needle’s Eye would have considerable merits. Its weakness is that it is also a novel with a purpose and deals with the class war in a manner that can only be described as fumbling. Timothy Pember exaggerates the difficulties of founding trade unions and writes as though England in the nine-teen-thirties were rather. similar in this respect to the United States in the present. This blemish is a misfortune, as few recent novels have been so successful in their building up of an atmosphere and a coherent fabric of events and shown such freshness and origin-
ality.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 20
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144THE CAMEL'S HUMP New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 20
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