GOOD BYE, AVA

by Richard Bissell ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 18, 1960

Mr. Bissell is back to his river-mongering again in a high kicking story of houseboat living at Blue Rock, a harbor on the Iowa shore of the Mississippi. The narrator, Frank, keeps his romance strictly for Ava Gardner, his interests in his Sno-Fuzz and Sno-Cone business and his hobby in life as a river nut. His time is however taken up with his neighbors, Clyde and Jeri, and their children, because Clyde is just naturally a ""pistol"" and his rebellion against conformity gives Frank a chance to say farewell to his dream love, Ava. For Rip Ryan is adding to his fortune by bringing in the Imperial Fertilizer Company to lease river front space and everyone is told to move -- only, of course, Clyde will not. His gesture of defiance holds up trans-continental traffic for ten miles (his boycotting takes place on a bridge) but, if it is the cause of his death, it does defeat Ryan and the Imperial Fertilizer Company, and gives Frank the chance to wed Clyde's widow in double-quick time. Daffy doings, characters and situations have a topographical as well as a sociological interest throughout and accompany a story that has a broadly humorous attitude toward conventionality. Special tastes.

Pub Date: Oct. 18, 1960

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown-AMP

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1960

Categories: FICTION