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Love, Let Me Not Hunger/Large Print

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I loved this book.I gave it to my mother to read and she loved it so much that she is suggesting it for her book club. It concerns a small, private English touring circus that gets stranded --and abandoned to its fate-- by the owner, in Spain. The circus performers have no money to get back to England and must struggle against the elements (including a wonderfully described storm) and starvation, to keep themselves and the animals alive. The characters are so richly drawn, and their plight so dire, that I could not put this book down. Gallico shows his love and compassion for animals, and his belief in the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. The grotesque elements of this story are not gratuitous but add texture and color, while serving, in the end, to underscore his message of love and forgiveness. All in all, a vivid, gripping, and very moving book. Highly recommended.

I started reading this book confidently expecting a well crafted book in the mould of Gallico's other works and at the end of it I was shocked.Not only was the story melodramatic and apparently not reaaly going anywhere but it seemed only an excuse to insert something of the seamy side of life .There seemed to be no point to this story and when I discovered a particularly distasteful sexual situation implied at the end I threw this book out .One of the finest pieces of real trash that I have ever read ,this only served to disgust me.Gallico's unfailingly beautiful language is the saving grace but its only a wrapping for a sordid tale that never rises to the emotional heights he achieved in earlier books.I am surprised that anyone would even publish it.