Word: godden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TAKE THREE TENSES-Rumer Godden -Little, Brown...
...Author Godden (Black Narcissus) saves the mellow, memory-filled house for the family by having Rolls buy it as a present for his niece Grizel. Then a Nazi bomb caves in one of its walls, crushing out Rolls's life. Dying, he summons the spirit of Lark for a last talk. "Those [past] . . . actions were like thorns and wounds in our minds," says Lark. "But that is all over." "I love you, Lark," cries Rolls. "I love you. How much I love...
BREAKFAST WITH THE NIKOLIDES-Rumer Godden-Little, Brown...
...Rumer Godden is one of the most interesting of bad writers, or else one of the most unsatisfying of good ones. Breakfast With the Nikolides is much sharper and more mature than Gypsy, Gypsy (TIME, Aug. 12, 1940), yet as a whole the book is like an overcomplicated omelet prepared by an amateur chef too late at night for those who must digest...
...course of the telling, Miss Godden gets in some beautiful local color and some sharp child psychologizing. She shows a sensitivity to moods that is almost reminiscent of Virginia Woolf. But there is so much mystification, soft-focus symbolism and feminine theatricality that an almost fine novel becomes too dreamlike and sinister for words. Extreme sensitiveness breeds a type of melodrama, even...