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Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford. The downfall of "Last Tory" Christopher Tietjens, seen as the end of a whole society; a major revival (four novels in one) of a neglected English modern (TIME, Sept...
Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford. The downfall of "Last Tory" Christopher Tietjens, seen as the end of a whole society; a major revival (four novels in one) of a neglected English modern (TIME, Sept...
PARADE'S END (836 pp.]-Ford Madox Ford-Knopf...
...late Ford Madox Ford was just such a neglected writer. He was the son of the London Times's erudite German music critic, Dr. Francis Hueffer (the son changed his surname to Ford after World War I), as well as a grandson of Victorian Painter Ford Madox Brown and a cousin of the Rossetti family. A precocious schoolboy, he began writing while still in his teens, but almost from the beginning he showed that the only noise he was likely to make would be in praise of others...
Novelist Arnow, who was born in Kentucky and taught school in Pulaski County for six years, handles the talk of the hill people and evokes a picture of the countryside with the sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...