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...transparency, while Lexy glows with a passion that finally ignites Miri. At novel's end the cousins know that if they marry, it will be to each other. Only in this ending does Author Sourian, himself of Armenian descent, make an overt slip in his knowledgeable treatment of GreekAmerican customs, for consanguineous marriages up to the third cousin are regarded by the Orthodox Church as incest. At 24, Boston-born Peter Sourian is master of a style that is fresh, natural and ebullient. His characters define themselves in the language of the heart, not the tortured cliches of amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eros Was a Greek | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

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