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Monkeys

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Susan

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SUSAN MINOT

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SUSAN MINCT

MONKEYS Of

Penelope

this affecting novel,

Gilliatt

wntes "Monkrys

The ther

is

an extraordinary accomplishment

seven children of a sorrowing alcoholic

and

a blithe

but most unoblivious mother are

the viewpoint of a tale that has the

compass of one

of the great nineteenth-century novels

Minot's prose

fa-

is

a rarity in this

windy age

clean, shapely with the directness

of a child's letter Miss

It

distinctly in

grow up She has

the voices of the seven as they

—

is

and precision

Minot speaks

fondness for domestic details

Susan

a

of licorice, cider,

snowboots, spngged muslin, holidays as only the long American

summer knows them

thought vanished from

literature

—

that

I

They amass

with a festivity particular to this book Explosive things occur griefs, related t

wnting is,

a

fashion

is

never broken

that

in

so calm and matter-

the even surface of the

Short though the book

the control of the narrative allows the true

happening

of tragedy"

ISBN: D-SES-SM3ME-T

SAN RAFAEL PUBLIC LIBRARY

3 1111 01430 6771

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