BLUE CAMELLIA

by Frances Parkinson Keyes ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 1, 1956

A story distinct from the pattern we have come to expect from Mrs. Keyes, but still recognizably hers in the minutiae of background and development, in her gift for telling a credible story. This time, however, while her story has its meed of emotional and romantic content, one feels that the catalyst is an essential to the American- particularly the Louisiana- economy, rice, its breeding to the finest and sturdiest grain, its milling and marketing. It is a two generation story- of a man dedicated to one goal, sacrificing the wife who loved him to that goal; and of the daughter who had her own struggle in the love of two men, cousins -- one, the wastrel, the feckless one, whose love dominated her life; the other, his cousin, whose utter devotion won for him ten years of what he saw as happiness. It took the death of both -- the belated recognition of a father of what his daughter could offer- to bring them into partnership, towards a common goal. Here is no story of the social glamour of old New Orleans, though there are fleeting peripheral glimpses of it; here no fast paced mystery. The story may have, possibly, less wide appeal on the rental library level; but it makes a definite contribution to the American scene in a tale of pioneering and frontier living on a different plane- a ""pattern for living and working"", she has called it.

Pub Date: Feb. 1, 1956

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Messner

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1956

Categories: FICTION