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- Publisher: Clarke Irwin (1965)
- ASIN: B000LATLUE
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Deep PG Wodehouse,
This review is from: Tempest-tost (Salterton Trilogy) (Paperback)
An early novel (actually the first). Light touch with Davies's brand of situational and character-based humor. Comes off like deep PG Wodehouse, which is certainly no insult. I wish a few of the characters had been returned in following books - I like the precocious daughter especially, and her foil and co-hort, the grumpy gardener.
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Yes, he was younger then.,
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This review is from: Tempest-Tost (Salterton Trilogy) (Paperback)
I agree with the above reviews. This delightful book was written by a green Davies -- not yet in his prime. The thing for you prospective readers is to do as my Canadian literary guru had me do. Start with this book, this trilogy and read chronologically. Then you get the double pleasure of reading good literature and admiring the author's development. As for wanting to read more Davies after this -- it's a given.
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An Astounding Feat,
This review is from: Tempest-Tost (Salterton Trilogy) (Paperback)
Far from fluffy. Tilting at "The Tempest" as Davies does in this early novel is brave, or foolhardy, beyond measure. Extremely acute human beings are only occasionally profoundly generous. Do NOT forego the pleasure, even if you imagine you might balk at play within play. Davies came to novels by way of his love for theatre. Everything begins here, most remarkably his unique ability to write charming lively characters of both sexes, all ages, many orientations. In "Tempest-Tost", five or six rise to the level of presiding spirits. Plus the gnarled final effort of Shakespeare is tweaked/tickled/refreshed to a very nice renewal. Grand. Sharp without ever descending to mean. You can't meet Valentine Rich or the sisters Freddy & [Im]Patient Griselda (Gristle to Freddy) anywhere else. First in the Salterton. Read it.
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Professor Vambrace, Little Theatre, The Shed, Miss Rich, Larry Pye, Auntie Puss, Valentine Rich, Normal School, Pearl Vambrace, Hector Mackilwraith, Griselda Webster, Millicent Maude, Miss Wildfang, Reverend John, Humphrey Cobbler, Old Bill, Roger Tasset, Miss Webster, New York, Caesar Augustus Conquergood, Snak Shak, Miss Pottinger, Roscoe Forrester, Nellie Forrester, Lieutenant Swackhammer New!
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