THE NEIGHBORS

by Virginia Sorenson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 2, 1947

A family story, as a teacher and his family, accustomed to the relative comforts of city life in Denver, are uprooted and replanted in a mountain valley as sheep ranchers. Immediately they run head on into the arrogant ambition of their most powerful neighbor Roe, set upon pushing them out of the valley by fair means and foul. Nature seems leagued with him against the Kels -- and this is the story of unequal contest, waged on one side by a man and his wife determined to establish a new way of life, and make good neighbors -- on the other by lust of possession. The younger generation, attempting to disregard the barriers, find ways of contact; Call, newly returned from overseas, finds healing in his love for Cloie, Roe's youngest daughter, but it takes little Marie's death and the bitter ending of the feud on water rights to break down the last barriers of pride...The Mor aspects (associated with previous novels from Virginia Sorenson) are negligible and incidental to this story. It might have been a fine and important novel. As it stands, it is badly in need of blue pencilling, drastic editing to control the wandering from the thread of narrative. Both in style and content, it too often flags and lags.

Pub Date: Aug. 2, 1947

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1947

Categories: FICTION