THREE WHITE HORSES

by Fingal Von Sudorf ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Unabashed recollections of family life, as the author tells of her mother, brothers and the many, mad, incidents of their life together. From Stockholm with a Swedenborgian minister father, who, when he retired, returned to his homeland, to America where they eventually settled in Pennsylvania, where Vick, a brother, was the gardener on an estate. Vick's interest in goats, music, inventions, took more and more of his time, caused him to be fired, to find another place for the large brood of Von Sudorfs. Vick and Friedel gambled on the trash contract, and made good, while making enemies of their neighbors with their business. Vick's wife Karin managed to keep her composure in face of all his inspirations, helpers who upset the family routine, a sister-in-law (the author) where sculpture and art school kept her from wholeheartedly indorsing her brother's ideas, readers and tenants of primadonna techniques. Add to all this, a third brother with a Spanish-Philippine wife and three children of his own and you will get some sense of the milling around at their various homes. Thriving on opposition, cultivating rugged individualism, here is a family of violent contrasts, personalities, and closeknit domestic and cultural interests- with a type of humor and sentiment akin to I Remember Nama, rather than the dry wit of Life With Father. If the literary family field can stand another entry, here it is.

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ISBN: 0548072558

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1946

Categories: NONFICTION