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RETURN JOURNEY by R.F. DELDERFIELD 318 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Delderfield is to the novel what Upstairs, Downstairs is to television. The man is a good read, and for the kind of good-read addict who hates himself the next morning, Delderfield can be justified as literature too. "A modern Trollope, a latter-day Galsworthy!" the critics cry, while his stories slip down as smoothly as soap opera...
Return Journey was published in England in 1967 but is now being offered to American fans for the first time. It shows Delderfield up to his old virtues, dealing with people up to old vices. In an English seaside resort more than 30 years ago, "Pip" Stuart, a young photographer, seems about to marry the ironmonger's daughter and settle down to a lifetime of prams with now and then a pint at the corner pub. But a West Country Emma Bovary puts Pip's still-life future out of focus. Bored to a frenzy by small-town...
...told in flashback as Pip, now in his 50s, returns to a home town circled by trailers and transformed by "the telly and the transistor, the small car and the tourist agencies." The author's moral: They don't make small towns the way they used to. Delderfield died in 1972. But as long as his books flourish, nobody will be able to say that about the novel...
...Serve Them All My Days, Delderfield...