HAPPY RETURN
I, FOR ONE .. ., by Frank Sargeson; Caxton Press, 6/-. ‘THE publication in book form of Sargeson’s latest major work is very welcome. I remember the exhilaration I rew from reading it originally in 1952 in Landfall, which I tried to ss on then to readers of this journal. Re-read-ing it, I feel disposed to add to rather than to subtract from that praise. In addition to its maturity, its assurance, and its psychological insight, the story -it is that awkward length "long short" or "short long’-is intricately constructed, and to reach its final denouement, the ultimate disillusionment of an ageing woman, is like peeling an onion-even unto the involuntary tear.
To me this is the best work Sargeson has yet produced, and his many admirers will no doubt be delighted to be able to place it om their shelves at last. In view of its quality it is all the more regrettable that the format of the book is so paltry: it is apparently an off-print from the original Landfall appearance, with a title page, elegant enough, bearing the unprophetic date 1954. We learn the price, not from its publishers, but from the book shops.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 14
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199HAPPY RETURN New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 14
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