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...appeal to British-born Novelist Gavin Lambert. He first explored protracted puberty among starlets in Inside Daisy Clover, a barbed novel that Hollywood made into a mushy movie. Now Lambert satirizes the upper-class British male, alternately pampered and scourged in nursery and public school. His hero, Sir Norman Lightwood, is the invincible innocent, a descendant of Paul Pennyfeather who goes unarmed in a world of "pimps and pitiless roughnecks...
...place is plainly Augusta, with its Broad Street, its Confederate Monument and its levee against the Savannah River. But this will be no news to Augustans; many of them have grown casehardened to their fellow citizen's revelations in thin fictional disguise (Colonel Effingham's Raid, The Lightwood. Tree) of their community's seamy side and shoddy behavior...
Some of this Fleming has now translated into The Lightwood Tree. George Cliatt, fortyish, teaches history at Fredericksville Academy, while his brother is fighting in the Pacific. At a football game where a minor ruckus develops, a friend of Cliatt's adds to the confusion by yelling "To hell with the Home Folks Party." The friend is arrested on orders of the boss...
...LIGHTWOOD TREE (378 pp.)-Berry Fleming-Lippincotf...
Small politics usually make small novels, and The Lightwood Tree is no exception to the rule. Yet from the politics of his home town, Berry Fleming of Augusta, Ga. has succeeded in distilling enough of the historical essence of U.S. freedom and civil liberties to give The Lightwood Tree a realistic urgency rare among Southern novels outside the field of the race problem. The explanation is easy: large, balding Berry Fleming is a successful political operator himself. He was the intellectual sparkplug of a daring and determined revolution in Augusta...