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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
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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Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton (Hardcover - 1948)
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