NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY
EVE WITH HER BASKET, by Carl Fallas; Heinmann. Australian price, 16/-. FLOODTIDE. by. Frank Yerby; Heinmann. Australian price, 16/-. oa ISLAND LIGHT, by Alexander Key; Heinmann. Australian price, 16/-. CARL FALLAS’S Eve With Her Basket is more of a dream than a novel; a pleasant dream, as warmly and delicately coloured as the Ceylon in which it takes place. It reminds me of Sterne’s Sentimental Journey. David Lott, the dealer in precious stones, is a Man of Sensibility. Jeanette, his wife whom he has left in Holland-promising to be faithful to her for one calendar month-makes a gentle Eliza. For a Yorick, there is Ford Bryant, who falls in love with a girl from New Zealand. The story glows with happy endings. Hardly a book, though, for purists or puritans; dreams are rarely as dull as real life. ‘ ’ Frank Yerby’s Floodtide and Alexander Key’s Island Light are _ both novels of the American Civil War. Both are competently written, sound entertainment, though not particularly original. Floodtide is set in the South of just before the war. Ross Pary, the boy from the bottom of the hill, makes good and climbs into society. Three women- preposterous creatures outside their con-text-love him. The most notable thing about the story is its pace; event is piled on event, climax on climax, until, out of sheer exhaustion, one is forced to put the book down. The action-and ‘there’s plenty of it -of Island Light takes place in a conquered, post-war, South. Max Ewing escapes from his Florida prison and comes back to Appalachicola to start a
one-man war against the Yankees. A woman changes his mind for him. This is a novel distinguished only by the fact that the characters have a certain amount of life. and that the writing
doesn’t jar.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 652, 4 January 1952, Page 11
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303NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 652, 4 January 1952, Page 11
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