In Last Things, Lewis Eliot, the hero of Sir Charles Snow's masterful sequence of novels, "Strangers and Brothers," sums up his life. He says goodbye to politics and the way the world ticks, only to find his son caught up in the same sort of life. He tries to define his difficult relationship with his son, to understand the bewildering new ways, and in so doing casts new light on the various kinds of love a man encounters in a lifetime. Finally, at the moment of death - in the most intimate and revealing part of the novel - Lewis Eliot looks into himself, without mercy but with total freedom. What he sees is the climax of this enthralling novel.
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The last one - 11 books - took me seven months to read them all, and now I feel berift, like something has left my life. An amazing accomplishment by Snow which started in 1940 and was completed with this novel, published in 1970. The span of a man's life is covered, Lewis Eliot, I greatly suspect Snow's alter ego, and in this last one, he is threatened with death, a dear friend in fact does die, a step-son marries and has a child, and Eliot's own son goes off to make his own fate. George Passant dies alone, life goes on. A good wrapping up of things. I will remember the heart of the series, which is that a human's actions are part his own nature, part the times in which he lives. This series should be remembered better. Eliot is about 62 when the novel ends.
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By When Lewis's son Charles, age seventeen, returns from a trip abroad he says he is struck by how inward Britain has become. After his wife turns him out, Pat visits the dying Austin Davidson. Trying to decide whether to take a government job, Lewis encounters Sammikins, who is gaunt-faced, (inoperable cancer). He decides not to take the job. The novel is set in 1965, a time when British power and influence had diminished. Austin Davidson, a pre-1914 member of the group known as the Apostles believed that no good man got involved in politics. He was pleased with Lewis's decision. Lewis has surgery for a slipped retina. He learns that while he was under anesthesia his heart had stopped. Francis Getliffe, a comrade and notable university scientist, feels that Lewis's experience should not have happened. While speaking to one of Charles's friends, Lewis registers the fact that in 1965 people no longer try very hard to disguise their regional accents. This is as strong a novel in the STRANGERS AND BROTHERS series as any of the others. As characters die and plot lines are tied up the reader feels things end naturally and reasonably. There seems to be no weakening of purpose on the part of the author, no slackness.
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