A FULL HOUSE

by Feenie Ziner ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 26, 1967

Mrs. Ziner is married to Zeke, a modern painter with a ""demon"" vision--in fact a view of life as large as a mural and, after some sixteen years together, they moved to a large old house outside Chicago with their young (four and one) sons Joey and Mare when she became pregnant again. Close to the finish line the doctor came up with an X-ray guess of triplets and Ziner Babies A B & C, two boys and a girl, emerged and practically submerged them in an overwhelming year of drooling infants and dangling diapers. This is its account, which also includes Zeke's moving them to outside New York--a huge mansion (""moribund hotel"") with two hundred windows: the part-time help of one Mrs. Blaha, ""all the yellow pages of the telephone directory"" in one person and a rather sombre Yugoslavian pediatrician attempting to learn English on the weekends: the ""chronic sense of fiscal peril"" and crumbling plaster and dogs and the nonstop demands of a trizophronic schedule such as this. It's all there, ending with a weekend away which they spend returning to the untenanted west wing of the house where Zeke stakes out that 10% margin of time in which she can write. A nice book such as this. Try the audience of Shirley Jackson's Raising Demons. They'll be there.

Pub Date: April 26, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1967

Categories: NONFICTION