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...best thing about The Young May Moon is that Novelist Newby, like fellow English Novelists Henry Green and William Sansom, writes about his people with fraternal warmth and no condescension. Unlike those "proletarian" and naturalist novelists who are so shaken with mission that they make their workers or sharecroppers into faceless morons, Newby knows that a truck driver can be a man of sensitivity and a baker a man of imagination...
...BODY (215 pp.)-William Sansom-Harcourt, Brace...
This sad and ridiculous situation is the starting point of William Sansom's smoothly joined and brightly told study of middle-aged delusional jealousy. Henry Bishop yearned for the days when people gently chased butterflies with nets; by contrast, he found modern life crude and vulgar. Until Diver's appearance, his 20 years of marriage with Madge had been plain, placid and passionless. Diver was all energy and heartiness. To Madge's amusement, he thrust trick gadgets at Henry-a golden dog whose eyes lit up, a dinner plate that leaped up convulsively...
This seemingly overworked situation has been used by Author Sansom with both sympathy and artistic guile. Readers naturally feel superior to Henry; they may also have an uneasy feeling that Henry's kind of foolishness is pretty common...
...father's wife, Miss Amy, proceeds to hit the bluejay with a poker. This proves to be an appropriate introduction to the household. Other inmates are the languid and effeminate Cousin Randolph, Jesus Fever's granddaughter Zoo Fever, and Joel's father, Mr. Sansom, who is mysteriously sick and invisible. Joel begins to think maybe he doesn't exist. But in the evening a red tennis ball bumps down the stairs as if it had a life of its own, and rolls into the parlor. That is how he learns that his father is lying upstairs...