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Nipped in the Budd. It is through such a novel series, the mammoth (ten volumes) Lanny Budd saga, that Novelist Upton Sinclair is best known to the younger generation. Almost buried under Lanny's insupportable weight has been the early Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle, The Brass Check and Oil! Most admirers of the old Upton Sinclair have long felt sure that he would never manage to shake off limpet Lanny and re-emerge in anything like his old form...
...Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, Sinclair proves his old admirers at least halfway wrong. In this happily Buddless parody of Richardson's famous classic written in 18th Century idiom, Sinclair shows that though he may no longer be capable of striking Oil! he still has craft and subtlety enough to rig a strong derrick and drill some telling holes in the seamier sides of U.S. life. Not that his plumbings achieve any new level, for in Another Pamela, as "in almost everything he has written, Sinclair sticks close to his favorite theme: the way of life...
Bolt the Door. In the Sinclair version, Heroine Pamela Andrews is a prim, pretty, barefoot goat-girl, a devout Seventh Day Adventist who lives with her mother in a tarpaper shack in the California desert. One day in the 19205 a plush black limousine breaks down slap outside the Andrews home, and its owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century...
Though Novelist Sinclair puts Pam through her passes with plenty of dry humor, most readers will have had just about enough of her by the time she and Charles depart on their honeymoon. What rarely flags is Author Sinclair's expanding picture of the Harries menage. Its doors are open day & night (Pam bolts hers) to a flow of cranks and zealots ranging from pinks to Hindu lecturers...
...Harries-and, along with her, Author Sinclair's happy new vein-is best summed up in one of Pam's nicest remarks: "She writes letters to the newspapers and to important persons and tells them what they are doing that is wrong...