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Prisoner of Grace, by Joyce Gary. The story of Nina Nimmo and her lifetime bargain with two men; a new novel by one of the liveliest writers alive (TIME...
...bears Jim a second child-and Chester has little doubt who the father is. Nevertheless, Nina stays with Chester. He makes her feel that his religious faith and political destiny give him the greater claims on her loyalty. He reaches Parliament, enters the cabinet, finally becomes Lord Nimmo. Nina, through the years, is the target of his suspicions (well founded), the constant victim of his spite. But even when she hates him, which is not often, Chester's needy love for her keeps her in his debt, and makes it impossible for her to leave him. When Chester finally...
...deep freeze, are still succulent with life. Though literary immortality is as chancy as other sorts, it looks as though Joyce Cary has already added his quota to fiction's Valhalla: Gulley Jimson, Sara Monday. Mister Johnson, Tom Wilcher. Last week he added two more: Chester Nimmo and Nina...
...person he becomes in his latest book, Prisoner of Grace, is a woman, Nina. A young orphan girl in a declining family in England of the 1890s, she is in love all her life with her cousin and childhood friend Jim Latter. When she is still in her teens, not yet mistress of her mind or her emotions, he gets her pregnant. To prevent scandal, her strong-minded guardian, Aunt Latter, marries her off to Chester Nimmo, a bright but poor local chap. Chester, twice Nina's age, is aware of her condition but considers the marriage a bargain...
...Nina decides to make the best of it and be a good wife to Chester. As she watches him fight and connive his way to political power, she is disgusted, fascinated, finally enlisted. But she is still helplessly in love with Jim. Whenever that selfish, arrogant, incoherent gentleman reappears, he has only to crook his finger or whistle...