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...Ward, by Jacoba van Velde. The Dutch author writes without tricks or sentimentality about an ordinary old woman who accepts death with dignity...
CLARA MILLS WARD...
...WARD, by Jacoba van Velde (120 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $3), a major literary success in Europe, is an uncommonly honest novel about the ordinary death of an ordinary old woman. In it, Dutch Author Jacoba van Velde manages to skirt the standard literary paths to death-cynicism, hysteria, indifference and bravado. Her setting is an old-women's nursing home, and in it the place to avoid is the big ward. To be moved there from the little ward, which beds only six, is a sure sign that the doctors have sighted the end; to be switched from...
...youngster at play, for courting pigeons, for flowers. Author van Velde triumphs over her unattractive little world by accepting it for what it is. just as Mrs. Van der Veen, with all her fears, remains a figure of dignity till the end. Without tricks-and without sentimentality-The Big Ward leaves the feeling that it is not about dying but about a life, however commonplace, that has been lived well...
...bright, ingratiating girl who soon became her whole life. Joannah's father, an infantry captain, was killed in Normandy, and Joannah's mother remarried, now lives in South Africa. Mrs. Whitney took over Joannah's upbringing, put her through fine schools, was pleased to see her ward win a national essay contest. Now a senior at Sarah Lawrence College, Joannah is a literature major, a talented painter, a graceful athlete. Last week she learned that she is also an heiress. Mrs. Whitney, dead at 82 last February, left Joannah nearly all of her considerable wealth. Chief legacy...