WORLD'S BEGINNING

by Robert Ardrey ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 21, 1944

This is an unusual and a rather fascinating conception -- but the manner of its telling is going to limit its audience unless one's imagination is caught by the ""idea, and word of mouth assists it along. It starts slowly; there's too much introspective meandering; there are constant interruptions on route. It is a story of the future-twenty years after this war -- and so near enough for many of its audience to assume the chances are good that they will see that day. A new social and economic order has been established after the country has gone through complete upheaval, revolution, despair, race riots, national bankruptcy. The story teller is a newspaperman who participated at first hand -- for the sake of the story -- in some of the horrors of race riot and bestiality, now viewed with shame. And then comes some hope as he goes to a little Texan town and finds the micro of a new social order which has been put into operation. He is caught by its promise, disillusioned when the world is unwilling to accept its implications, heartened again when it catches on elsewhere and the idea of the Commonwealth, of partisan operation of industry, is fulfilled. Democracy is saved, something else is lost -- but not irreparably. It is a novel of an idea, and well worth reading.

Pub Date: Sept. 21, 1944

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Duell, Sloan & Pearce

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1944

Categories: FICTION