Word: rumer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNDER THE INDIAN SUN by Jon and Rumer Godden. 240 pages. Knopf, Viking...
...this lushly produced, smoothly vulgarized adaptation of a 1963 novel by Rumer Godden, effusions like "binding, inescapable, unforgettable" are as common as teacups at a Wednesday bridge luncheon. But breathless rhetoric apparently is the norm for sensible English matrons who desert home and family to live in guilty splendor with pianists on the shores of Italy's Lago di Garda. Maureen and Rossano have no sooner snuggled into his sumptuous Villa Fiorita than her pint-sized son and daughter (Martin Stephens, Elizabeth Dear) arrive. They have paid their fare to Italy by selling the girl's pet pony...
...BATTLE OF THE VILLA FIORITA by Rumer Godden. 312 pages. Viking...
There is evidence that the Book-ofthe-Month Club could not exist with out Rumer Godden. In the 24 years since she published Black Narcissus, she has provided B.O.M. with half a dozen of those soft-focus domesticated dra mas that brush across a reader's mind as soothingly as a summer breeze...
Loss of Innocence. Rumer Godden's novel The Greengage Summer becomes a charming thriller of sensibility, in which Susannah York provides a memorable impression of what Eve was like when the serpent first began to whisper...