DOG DAYS
THREE WAYS'‘TO MECCA. By Edwin Corle. Jonathan Cape. LIVELY novel, with plenty of high spirits and pleasant satire, it is the sort of book Eric Linklater might have written had he been born in the United States. The scene is California in the present ("California, thy mame is crackpot!") and France in 1930. Oliver Walling is just a good chap who wisecracks well; but John Lackland is that uncomfortable figure, the modern saint, whom writers, like Somerset Maugham, who ought to know better, have begun to intrude into the novel. However, he gets over taking himself quite so seriously as the book proceeds, but not befpre we have heard a lot of rather substandard philosophising. The three ways to Mecca, it turns out, afe the intellectual, the spiritual, and the "so-called sensational." Corle is happier as a pure farceur, having Walling attend the Countess’ party and wear his famous ‘dog suit. And what, pray, is a dog suit? Read the hook and find out.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 15
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168DOG DAYS New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 15
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