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...NOON by D.H. Lawrence; Cambridge;370pages...
...much transient tree-blossom and foliaged leaves, on to the winds of time." A funny thing happened next. The winds of time caught these words and much of the novel in which they appear and blew them into hiding for roughly 50 years. Between the day he abandoned Mr. Noon in midsentence in 1922 and his death in 1930, at 44, Lawrence seems to have forgotten about the book. An opening section of the novel was included in a posthumous collection of stories called A Modern Lover (1934). But the remainder, twice as long, was presumed lost until it resurfaced...
Here at last is the whole book (albeit unfinished), its disparate parts meticulously edited and annotated by Professor Lindeth Vasey of the University of Texas at Austin. The prospect of new words from their master has already excited legions of Lawrencians. It will not matter to them that Mr. Noon is not very good...
Unfortunately, the previously published Part I of Mr. Noon positively begs to be dismissed; Lawrence's ability to make a short story long is truly stunning. Gilbert Noon, a dour mathematics teacher in his mid-20s, may or may not have got a local Midlands lass in a family way. The truth, after 90 pages of meandering prose, remains unclear, at which point even the author grows bored with his characters: "Let them go to hell...
...newly unveiled Part II displays a significant change; Gilbert Noon is now studying for a doctorate in Munich and, more important, he has become a fictional surrogate of D.H. Lawrence...