TOUGH GOING
THE LONG SWIM, by Richard Angell: Eyre and Spottiswoode. English price, 7/6. HIS American novel, unlike the feat of endurance it so graphically describes, is a tour de force which does not quite come off. It is really a long
short story rather than a novel, but not even its extension to only 136 pages can altogether protect its readers from the Jongueurs that arise from too constant a hammering on the one. point. Richard Angell’s young sailor sets out to swim. seven miles across a Mediterranean strait and through misadventure swims forty. His whole life massés before his eyes-unfortunately not in one flash, but in a sputter of staccato excerpts, with time off, however, for the verse quotations to be identified by footnotes. . There is a certain uneasy alliance in this book between literary invention and "reportage"; action and reflection get a little entangled. q
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 18
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150TOUGH GOING New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 18
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