Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Home on the Channel. Author Hart ley is profoundly interested in what happens to ordinary people when they let themselves go and get entangled in extraordinary situations. Isabel Eastwood, the "perfect woman" of this novel, is an ordinary woman who dreamed in her younger days of dedicating her life to something rare and wonderful. But just when she was getting the hang of Kafka and the tang of Joyce, she married Harold, a chartered accountant who regarded life as a sort of income-tax return and his Creator as an Inspector of Internal Revenue. The Inspector, as Harold sees...
Harold and Isabel have two children (the Inspector insists on this) and are toying with having a third when their income can stand it. Their home is a neat little villa in a neat little town beside the ocean - not the roaring, boisterous ocean, of course, but the tidy English Channel with its concrete esplanades...
...hair with rage, the world that drove William Blake and D. H. Lawrence half-mad with revulsion. But Hartley is too bland to feel revulsion. Like a scientist who wants to see what will happen, he throws a wench into Harold's work and a wolf into Isabel's life...
Despite rumors that Perón last March married one Isabel del Solar Guillen, 19, (in a civil ceremony in the city he renamed for Eva Perón), Nelly stayed his favorite right up to last week. Aboard the gunboat, he penciled a fatuous billetdoux: "My dear baby girl ... I miss you every day, as I do my little dogs . . . Many kisses and many desires. Until I see you soon, Juan D. Perón." Another time he signed "Papi," which translates roughly as Daddykins...
...basic dilemma remains unresolved, and in this first novel. Briton Isabel Quigly maintains it for so long that the plot caves in on her characters. With Neddy's return only days away, Celia is belatedly asking her lover: "What do people do, Arcangelo, in a situation like ours? What do they do? ... Catholics, I mean." The distinct suggestion is that the best the star-crossed lovers can hope for is some sort of intercontinental ménage-á-trois. Author Quigly's story ranges from romantic intensity to limp sentimentality but in her evocation of the sensuousness...