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- Publisher: A L BURT & CO (1948)
- ASIN: B000SHGZ22
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Modern not,
By Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Black Oxen (Unbound)
Countess Zattiany, who is 58, has a glandular operation (based on a silly popular theory of the day), the result being that she has the looks and personality of one who is 28. She falls in love with Lee Clavering, an ambitious young journalist. Even after telling him the truth about herself, he wants to marry her. But she marries an Austrian prince instead in order to pursue a diplomatic career. In the book at one point Atherton has the Countess describe the modern novel as "gloomy, pessimistic, excoriating, merciless, drab, sordid, and hideously realistic." Many of those terms describe this novel, too. Atherton was an old-fashioned novelist who thought she could be modern if she talked modern. But this book is very old-fashioned and a bit tiresome as well.
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Talk. Talk. Talk. . . . Good lines and no action . . . said all . . . not even promising first act . . . eighth failure and season more than half over . . . rather be a playwright and fail than a critic compelled to listen to has-beens and would-bes trying to put over bad plays. . . . Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Madame Zattiany, Mary Ogden, Mary Zattiany, Miss Dwight, Gora Dwight, Countess Zattiany, Anne Goodrich, United States, Marian Lawrence, Jane Oglethorpe, Miss Trevor, Buda Pesth, Eva Darling, Madison Square, Prince Hohenhauer, Fifth Avenue, Josef Zattiany, Suzan Forbes, Polly Vane, Countess Loyos, Lee Clavering, Miss Goodrich, Miss Oglethorpe, Agnes Trevor New!
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Talk. Talk. Talk. . . . Good lines and no action . . . said all . . . not even promising first act . . . eighth failure and season more than half over . . . rather be a playwright and fail than a critic compelled to listen to has-beens and would-bes trying to put over bad plays. . . . Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Madame Zattiany, Mary Ogden, Mary Zattiany, Miss Dwight, Gora Dwight, Countess Zattiany, Anne Goodrich, United States, Marian Lawrence, Jane Oglethorpe, Miss Trevor, Buda Pesth, Eva Darling, Madison Square, Prince Hohenhauer, Fifth Avenue, Josef Zattiany, Suzan Forbes, Polly Vane, Countess Loyos, Lee Clavering, Miss Goodrich, Miss Oglethorpe, Agnes Trevor New!
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