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...based on a thriller by the American Cornell Woolrich, and like its predecessor, it deals with a predatory female and a weak male, whom she eventually destroys. Julie (to emphasize the similarity, the name is repeated from The Bride Wore Black) is an elegant mail-order bride with a Saint Laurent wardrobe who has come to the French island of Réunion to meet her future husband, a wealthy tobacco farmer named Louis. From the photographs they exchanged by letter, she is almost unrecognizable. He had expected a sweet but faintly dowdy brunette; she meets him as a startlingly...
...SAINT VENUS by Anthony Burgess. 138 pages. Norton...
Publishing this little work (or opusculum, as Burgess calls it) 20 years after he wrote it and six years after it came out in England, the author also issues a fair warning. The Eve of Saint Venus, he says, "depends for its effect largely on an understanding of the insular and conservative English character, especially as manifested in a silly, ingrown, mainly nonexistent rural aristocracy...
...resourceful servant, the grim but reliable chatelaine, the sweet guileless young lovers, the comic Anglican clergyman." Only a writer who can bring such scarecrows to life would be willing to proclaim, let alone admit, that his characters come out of a fusty stage wardrobe. In The Eve of Saint Venus, this miracle is performed...
...watch on homage to Lenin during the leader's centennial year, and it believes it has spotted an increased interest in the master's works among the youth of an American city far from the Kremlin walls (see THE WORLD, "The Drive to Make Lenin a Secular Saint...