Evan S. Connell’s Mr Bridge was the subject of my previous post; today I intend completing this assessment of his 1969 novel about an emotionally repressed Kansas City lawyer (with his mantra ‘there is nothing to discuss’) and his family, … Continue reading
James Wilcox, Modern Baptists. First published USA 1983. Penguin Classics 2005. Spoiler alert: details of plot and ending are revealed here. I bought this book in a local second-hand bookshop because I liked the cover. Penguin really do produce some … Continue reading
This summer I had a short holiday in SE Cyprus, near to where I’d lived as a child when my dad was stationed there during his army days. I can barely remember that time, apart from attending my first primary … Continue reading
J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour – An Introduction, Penguin paperback; first US and UK book publication, 1963; first Penguin, 1964; original US edition first published in UK 1994; reissued by Penguin 2010. Raise High and Seymour … Continue reading
The novella ‘Zooey’ completes the book Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger, and was first published in The New Yorker in 1957, then with the short story ‘Franny’, about which I wrote recently here, in book form in 1961. Its … Continue reading