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...County amongst the legends and the myths of the past. They are surrounded by stories of man's need to destroy himself and the present so as to have revenge upon and gain unity with the past. They have the ruined plantations lying barren around them, they have sterility, incest, and divided houses...
...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 psychologizing. With love and 20-20 vision, Author Sourian has made the season's most appealing...
...What? Incest again?" fans of Ivy Compton-Burnett will cry upon opening Brothers and Sisters. Again an old desk, locked for decades, containing a letter containing the terrible truth? Again a hard fate visiting the sins of the father upon the children...
...situation, speaks rather bitterly of "my maternal grandfather, my paternal grandfather, my only grandfather." What makes the case even more difficult is that two of the Stace children were engaged to marry two of Mrs. Lang's offspring. The engagements had to be broken off, to avoid fresh incest. And when Sophia dies abruptly of "some internal illness that is mortal." the children really feel it is time for them to go and live somewhere else. The neighbors agree that this is a wise move, though naturally they are sorry to lose a family that has brought so much...
...unsavory subject is a homosexual affair between a 13-year-old boy and his 30-year-old seducer, a gas-station attendant. Tesch borrows from Jones the neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word. Among Tesch's victims and vermin: a girl who commits incest and goes mad, a wife-beating lush, an aging sadistic homosexual. The most defenseless victim is the English language, e.g., "A pang of lonesomeness settled over him like a cold wet spray." Some might argue that Tesch was a born bad writer. But Gerald, an off-and-on Handy colonist...