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...human interest" newspaper account of her plight brings other characters scur rying. An aging writer (Larkin Ford) thinks the governess's story might make a good plot for his next novel. Her ex-fiance (Lucien Zabielski) throws himself at her feet in the belief that she tried to commit suicide out of love for him. Her former employer (Gordon Gould), the fa ther of the dead child, turns out to have been her adulterous lover. Yet, in seek ing the truth each character continues to live out a lie. Why? The governess offers an answer in a gently despairing...
...have to print J.P. Donleavy's name on the dust jacket of this novel. Arch alliteration is a trademark established by the author through a steady succession of Saddest Summers, Beastly Beatitudes and Mad Molecule. Fans and detractors can agree on one point: no one but Donleavy could commit such titles...
Along the way, events and people move like unanchored pinwheels, often to dazzling effect. A cast of odd and deranged servants at Andromeda Park is road-show Hellzapoppin: Darcy informs a new housekeeper, "That is the room where our butlers commit suicide and it is always kept locked." When the hero careers through Dublin's fringes, Donleavy reveals the same skill at catching the city's sights and smells that astonished readers of The Ginger Man 20 years...
...crimes the prisoners did commit--the "war stories," as they're called--are supposed to be played down when they talk to the kids. There are, however, few conversations that don't contain personal details. "I'm just trying to understand them for what they are--namely grown men trapped in boys' bodies," Jerry Funderberg says. "They get away with it 99 per cent of the time and think they're slick. I was the same and I can tell them about me," he adds, and proceeds to do so--complete with descriptions of armed robberies and an imaginary slash...
Arson is one of the easiest crimes to commit and the hardest to prevent-and prosecute. District Attorneys must prove the fire was set intentionally...