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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Keane's distinctive powers remain at their wickedly brilliant height despite the 60-odd years that have elapsed since she first wrote as M. J. Farrell. As in Good Behaviour , her setting is the decaying, yet flamboyant, country-house life of the Anglo-Irish gentry during the first half of this century; again, her heroine's personality is woefully misshapen by the heedlessness and cruelty of her parents. Through eight-year-old Nicandra Forester's eyes, we see the ``Day of Disaster'' when her beautiful, beloved, but capricious ``Maman'' absconds with both the family's dashing land steward and her widowed sister's jewels. Nicandra's ``silent little father'' Sir Dermot, who named his daughter after a horse, is emotionally remote, preoccupied like most of his class with horse breeding and racing. Generous Aunt Tossie, a stout, gourmandizing tippler, on the other hand, overwhelms her niece with maternal affection, reminding Nicandra unbearably of what she has lost. Compelled to give love where none is required, the beautiful, grownup Nicandra finds her perfect nemeses in the debonair and grasping Andrew Bland and in her bosom friend, Lalage Lawless. Keene richly describes a lost age and the demise of the family Forester, along with its ``Dear Old Place.'' Despite the simplicity of its overall con ception, this acutely perceptive novel plumbs deeper than the delicious mockery of its surface to expose the rottenness of a foundering, class-ridden society. Major ad/promo. (Sept.)
Library Journal
In this sad, moving, and rather shocking novel, Irish writer Keane evokes in careful detail a lost world--that of a well-to-do Anglo-Irish family in southern Ireland in the period between two world wars, their main interests hunting and breeding race horses. The tragic theme is ``the revenge life takes on those who please and give too much.'' From childhood to maturity, the sensitive and loving heroine, Nicandra, suffers a series of terrible betrayals. Like Shakespeare's King Lear (to whom she is implicitly compared in the title), she loses everything that is most dear to her. Her mother deserts her, she loses her baby, and her husband runs off with her best friend. At the end, in another echo of King Lear , happiness is momentarily restored only to be instantly snatched away. Not for the tender-minded.-- Bryan Aubrey, Fairfield, Ia.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780140144918
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 11/5/1990
  • Series: King Penguin
  • Pages: 240
  • Product dimensions: 7.00 (w) x 5.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

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