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Unworried Tabitha. Gary's new novel, A Fearful Joy, is centered about another of his extravagant characters: Tabitha Baskett, a woman with an easygoing moral sense, but with enough common sense to know that the best thing to do with life is to live it. A Fearful Joy is not topflight Gary; sometimes it reads like a fast imitation of his best writing. But there is still a rich ration of fun in it, and the old Gary feel for the texture and grain of people...
...Tabitha first appears as a young girl in a small English town, orphaned and stuck with a dull, painfully married elder brother. Thirsty for adventure, she runs off with Bonser, a jovial fast-talking bounder who peddles worthless shares in country pubs. Bonser juggles her on his knee and cuddles her in bed, but he runs out when her money does...
...First important native play was The Contrast, in which the homespun hero, disdaining fashionable life, states his preference for "Tabitha, her Bible, a cow, and a little peaceable bundling." In an early Negro play, the white author's ear for dialogue produced: "I don't know what ole missee can see in him to make her likee him so much but I must holee my tongue...
...enter Tabitha Green, in search of her missing husband, and Lithia, in search of her lover, as he has fallen heir to an estate and baronetcy. They are disguised as Quakers and do a neat song and dance as their introduction...
...last minute the missing Lovelace rushes in, and Lithia at once flies to him. But when Kidd shows that the poet has discarded her picture she becomes cold once more, and Kidd is at the point of triumph when Tabitha appears upon the scene, and, at the instigation of Bloodso, discovers at last her husband...