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FINISTERE,. by Fritz Peters; Victor Gollancz, English price, 10/6. HIS novel, with its scene in France, is the ‘story of the adolescent Matthew, child of divorced American parents, who both remarry, the classic | situation for producing instability. But need it have produced the guilty love. of Matthew for his French schoolmaster, | Michel? Some phases of this book are well handled and show a sensitiveness to the fluctuating moods of youth, but sin as much as virture has its Jongueurs as well as its miséres. It fails in sum to | secure that "willing suspension of disbelief" which we are asked to bring to the reading of every novel. The suicide | with which it ends and much else be- | sides leave in the mind of at least one | reader nothing but incredulity.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 13
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134THE END New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 13
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