TYRONE OF KENTUCKY

by Clark McMeekin ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 26, 1954

The Kentucky scene once again, but this time with a new quality and tempo. No moonlight and honeysuckle- no romantic bluegrass -- but the grim aftermath of hate and suspicion, disunion and poverty, left as heritage of the War between the States. There's an authentic note to the climate of opinion drawn here, and kind of integrity of interpretation that gives body to a somewhat anticlimactic story. David Tyrone, wounded and hospitalized in Alabama, marries too hastily a girl who was somehow involved with a deep sense of guilt in his mind, over the death of her young brother. The return home to Kentucky finds the young couple confronted with the unpopularity of the lost Confederate cause, with the open criticism of David for not coming back to marry the girl to whom he was pledged, and with Glen's secretiveness, deviousness and arrogance. Too bad that no measure of sympathy for her in the disasters she brings upon them survives, for the end disaster and her small measure of regret leaves the reader with no modicum of hope for any happiness in store.

Pub Date: March 26, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1954

Categories: FICTION