THIS SIDE OF INNOCENCE

by Taylor Caldwell ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1946

This new Taylor Caldwell novel is more along the track of her last book,- The Wide House, than the earlier trilogy of the Bouchard family. It sold tremendously -- and so will this. She has a gift of story telling which is all too rare. Too bad she has no gift of style to go with it, for, despite this being her seventh book, it is still crude writing, overlush, unselective; her characters are paper thin marionettes, wholly derivative (and that from an era of Neither Maid, Wife Nor Widow vintage); her plot is machine made. But- it moves- and the reader goes along... The setting this time is again a town in upper New York, round about 1867 at the start, and covering some twenty years. It is a story of two worthless people,- a son who had squandered his fortune, and who took hold of his place at the bank solely to do his foster brother out of his inheritance; and a woman, now drawn as a naive misunderstood girl, now as an unscrupulous adventurer- and never convincingly either. Of how Jeromo plotted to wreck a marriage- and succeeded. And of what the aftermath did to almost wreck another- and more palatable- romance in the next generation. Oh yes, you'll road to the end. But you haven't much when you get there.

Pub Date: April 1, 1946

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Scribnor

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1946

Categories: FICTION