Word: mccrone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PLUSH (615 pp.)-Guy McCrone-Farrar, Straus...
...gapingly succumbs to the pompous middle-class standards of its own characters. Inflated Bel, a meddling woman busily climbing the social ladder; dough-mouthed Mungo and his horsy noble-blooded bride; rattle-brained David unable to decide between love and honor-these ciphers are fondled by Scottish Author McCrone as if they were creatures whose experience had intrinsic significance and value...
There is an honorable tradition of family novels in English literature, but McCrone is sadly unable to muster any of the gentle, needling satire of Jane Austen or the fierce jaundice of Samuel Butler or the sensitivity to social change of John Galsworthy. Red Plush reads as if it were written by a Moorhouse himself...