DON JUAN MCQUEEN

by Eugenia Price ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 1974

A worthy project -- to unravel the politics on the Georgia/Florida border about two decades after the Revolution; but alas, the characters are flattened by the merciless press of dusty research and monotone sentimentality. Don Juan McQueen, who left his wife Anne and their family behind to become a Spanish subject and who converted to Catholicism, longed for Anne to join him. But mother-dominated Anne, saddled with McQueen's debts for which he faced prison, fearful of the safety of her children, and unable to accept his Catholicism, does not, except for one brief interlude, leave her home. Although they loved each other fiercely, we are told, they die apart after years of separation. In spite of McQueen's activities -- diplomat, soldier, settler, etc. -- he remains as dim as the rest of the personae who seem to communicate in expository synapses. As research fair enough; as fiction excruciating. Although an audience awaits.

Pub Date: Oct. 1, 1974

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1974

Categories: FICTION