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...innocents are Ned and Beth Constantine and their twelve-year-old daughter. They are nice, safe people who come into a nice, safe inheritance, which allows Ned to abandon-pfaugh...
...earth, with every rootlet and capillary in the village pulsing to it. Where the author goes from there, though obvious enough in synopsis, is dark and intricate in the working out. His language is artfully chosen to match the slowly quickening mood of the narration. He gives Ned and Beth a 19th century primness that undermines the here and now, a teasing contrast to the unsettling suspicions the reader is beginning to entertain...
Details of Ned's downfall have no place in a review. They provide superior shivers and inevitably involve placid Mrs. Ranchwagon, Ned's mild suburban wife Beth. The beguiled reader concludes that Author Tryon should in deed turn serious, but there should be no complaint if he offers several more volumes of excellent nonsense before doing...
...Beth Kilbreth is a member of SDS and lives in Cambridge...
...BETH PETTIT...