A MAN'S WORLD

by Douglas Fairbairn ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

.....is occupied by teen aged American, George Fox, mess boy aboard the yacht Soprano now in Cannes for the owner, Mr. Lauderdale's pleasuring. Lonely, the Soprano his only home, George finds a friend in Christiane, an orphan and a prisoner to her aunt, Brigitte and her bar, the Moineau, and becomes her knight, to rescue her from the dragon. He gambles -- and loses -- to get Christiane out of bondage, he tries to get Christiane to stowaway but she is discovered and George, knocked out in fighting his betrayer, is carried home -- to a prep school provided by Mr. Lauderdale. This is an elusive picture of a pseudo maturity in which a forced growth into maturity, through a year of Mediterranean travel, crumples before its inadequacy and which is framed in a motley of drifting, unrooted portside incidents and personalities -- cynical, sober, drunken, abnormal, kind and vicious -- all heady, but not permanent, influences for a boy who returns to being a boy. To catch The Catches In The Rye, perhaps?

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION