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...Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), a 35-year-old diplomat, is about to marry his longtime inamorata. Before the wedding he makes a nostalgic trip to provincial Annecy, where he spent his boyhood holidays. There he meets an old friend, Novelist Aurora (Aurora Cornu) and two jeunes filles en fleur, Laura (Beatrice Romand) and Claire (Laurence de Monaghan...
...TENTH MONTH by Laura Z. Hobson. 286 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Laura Ingalls Wilder died in 1957 at age 90. But she left behind the manuscript of yet another Little House book, or at least the extended draft for one. Written out like the others in longhand in orange-covered school notebooks, it was found among her papers. It tells what happened to Laura and Almanzo during their first four years of married life. To Wilder fans, its publication can be considered as an unexpected gift from the past...
Writing about the olden days, Laura Wilder quickly snares all the incipient "how-to" book readers in her audience. A half dozen or so pages into Little House in the Big Woods, she is telling how Pa made a smokehouse out of a hollow tree to cure venison. She also describes cheese making, sod breaking, sugaring off, housebuilding (log, sod and frame), threshing, ice cutting and a hundred other practical matters. She offers assorted facts on such subjects as homestead law, horse breaking and how to manage a hoop skirt. The odd word may mystify (pieplant, claim shack, prove...
...there any artificiality about the plotting. Plots, in fact, are so seasonally repetitive and events so frequently domestic a few readers, boys especially, find the books a drag. What drama there is comes from the constant onslaughts of nature. Beginning in the Wisconsin forests. Laura, her sisters and their parents trek west by wagon into Kansas (Little House on the Prairie), then up to Minnesota (On the Banks of Plum Creek") and finally west again to South Dakota, beset along the way by grasshopper plagues, blizzards, rivers in spate and midsummer droughts that "cook the grains in the milk." Treated...