Word: tryon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvest Home, Tryon...
HARVEST HOME by THOMAS TRYON 401 pages. Knopf...
...Tryon is the movie actor (The Cardinal) who wrote The Other, a best-selling ghost story of a couple of years ago. His new chiller has nothing to do with ghosts. It is about the hideous trouble city folks can get into when they go hunting for a quaint and peaceful house in the country...
...course there is no New England village ruled by corn, or by any other crop, in the 19th century manner. Agriculture still gets done, but only in a desultory or else a superindustrialized fashion. No matter. It suits Tryon to imagine a great green heart beating slowly beneath the earth, with every rootlet and capillary in the village pulsing to it. Where the author goes from there, though obvious enough in synopsis, is dark and intricate in the working out. His language is artfully chosen to match the slowly quickening mood of the narration. He gives Ned and Beth...
Details of Ned's downfall have no place in a review. They provide superior shivers and inevitably involve placid Mrs. Ranchwagon, Ned's mild suburban wife Beth. The beguiled reader concludes that Author Tryon should in deed turn serious, but there should be no complaint if he offers several more volumes of excellent nonsense before doing...