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2.0 out of 5 stars
No picnic,
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This review is from: The Picnic at Sakkara (Hardcover)
P.H. Newby was an author and director of the BBC. He spent the war years in Cairo and penned this little novel sometime after (pub 1955). It's occasionally entertaining, has a good feel for some of the political and social confusion of Egypt at the time, and strives to be more than it is. The story is disjointed and wandering at times, not really a comedy, which is how the dustjacket describes it. The characters' emotional states don't ring true from moment to moment.
I got the book for research so it was useful in some of its details. As entertainment, it's dull going except when the author strikes the rare authentic note. The title choice is odd. An incident takes place during the eponymous picnic that is important to the ending of the story but the actual picnic is given no more weight than other events that seem to have no particular importance. |
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Picnic at Sakkara by P.H. Newby (Paperback - Dec. 1964)
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