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...Nothing, by James Hanley. An ac complished English novelist's brittle, sav age account of the guilt-edged insecurity of three lives...
...Nothing, by James Hanley. In a bitter, compressed book, a powerful British novelist probes the isolation of three cruelly interlocked lives...
...Nothing, by James Hanley. In a novel written almost entirely in jaggededged monosyllables, three guilt-ridden people in the north of England turn life into death by endlessly punishing one another...
...Hanley's characters are locked up in a strange love-hate relationship in a town in the north of England. Joshua Baines, his wife and her sister Winifred squabble, scream and spy on one another. But none has the strength to break away: a past tragedy keeps them together. On the eve of Winifred's wedding, her fiance, Tom, was seduced by Mrs. Baines. The wedding was called off and Tom died soon after...
...there are occasional glimpses of their pathetic longing for a better life. For all his disgust, the lodger finds it difficult to leave this house, and so, implies Hanley. would anybody. For this is no unique madhouse; as Author Hanley sees it, it is the human condition...