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GIANT, by Edna Ferber; Victor Gollancz. English price, 12/6. WATER-LILY, by F. Y. Thompson; Jonathan Cape. English price, 12/6. ROWANBERRY WINE, by Dorothy Cowlin; Jonathan Cape. English price, 12/6. A PLACE TO LIVE, by George Buchanan; Faber and Faber. English price, 10/6. "HE difficulties of a refined woman married to a Texas beef baron who is wedded to his several million-acre ranch are the theme on which Edna Ferber hangs a regional survey of the Lone Star State, replete with nutty quips and much well-cooked information. Leslie Benedict also upholds traditional middle-of-the-road American liberalism against the reactionary habits of powerpolluted ranchers and oil men. This is a vigorous, well-constructed, graphic novel, with a faint background noise of grinding axes. Water-Lily also gives a good picture of a society, the Chinese-European business community in Bangkok, Thailand, and its fringes. The hero is a lonely Dane whose main difficulties are due to his impulsive adoption of a stray halfcaste child. *
Two elderly archaeologists excavating in Yorkshire stray into some unbecoming emotional entanglements with their student helpers among the funeral. bartows. The difficulties caused by late-middle-age unfaithfulness are explored in Rowafberry Wine with competence, if not with much force. In A Place to Live, George Buchanan describes the difficulties a young airman has in settling down in civil life, due largely to his having more talent than his job of hotel management demands. This novel does not realise its possibilities and seems like an impatient sketch for the book its author will one
day write.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 13
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255DIFFICULTIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 723, 22 May 1953, Page 13
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