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...beginning to West's posthumous career, smoothly bridging past and future. The novel is a sequel to The Fountain Overflows (1956), the chronicle of a shabby-genteel family in turn-of-the-century London. A third volume, to be published later, will complete the trilogy West planned to call Cousin Rosamund: A Saga of the Century. The subtitle radiates the same kind of old-fashioned hubris that led Wells to write The Outline of History; the continuation of West's saga shows how thoroughly her grasp matched her reach...
...Rose, the narrator, says, that "to play an instrument badly was as shameful as any crime short of murder." Rose and her twin sister Mary practice the piano daily and dream of their futures on concert stages across Europe. The precocious little brother, Richard Quin, grows more charming, while Cousin Rosamund, withdrawn and beautiful, becomes effectively a member of this fatherless family...
...side of aesthetic conservatism; trailblazers such as Godard, Antonioni and Fassbinder were never so much as finalists for the prize, and directors like Bergman and Truffaut were cited years after their films had won critical acceptance. But in general the foreign Oscar was a distinguished overseas cousin to the Best Picture award...
...earth she regards as equals. These include most of the Benoirs, an impossibly rich and haughty French clan whose members call themselves the Sioux, perhaps as a tribute to their own ferocity. Mim, in her mid-20s, has led a luxurious but troubled life. Her first marriage, to Cousin Georges Benoir, ended in a car crash that killed one of the world's most dashing multimillionaires and the father of her son. Her second union, to a Governor of Mississippi named Davis Davis, proved a three-month debacle. Her honeymoon with Castleton has been acceptable; now she anxiously awaits...
Young Georges-Marie, 9, has, as his cousin Bienville tartly notes, "more names than Jehovah," among them Moumou, Puss and the Dauphin. This spectrally beautiful, thin, pale child speaks a bewildering mixture of French and "Ol' Kintuck," the hayseed dialect he absorbed during his brief exposure to Governor Davis' three strapping sons: "O, he jest being plain bad. O, il m'echappe toujours!" All the Sioux are holding their breath to see how George takes to Castleton. Armand reassures his brother-in-law: "The Dauphin has a truly terrifying sense of gratitude. You'll be annihilated by it, my poor...