WE HAPPY FEW

by Helen Howe ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 28, 1946

A nicely styled, neatly scored portrait of the intelligentsia, which takes off and takes down the exclusive circle of enlightenment of Boston and the Cambridge campus, and features the best of the talent portrayed in the earlier, more emotional The Whole Heart. This is the story of Dorothea Natwick, as she rejects rough, middle western Walt to marry staid, serious John Calcott, old Boston and now on the Harvard faculty. The war brings a breakup to Dorothea's life, her circle of ocomplacent, ""interesting"" and insular colleagues, and John goes away to fight. Bored and lonely, Dorothea has an affair with Gordon, who is recognizably cheap, and who, when John is reported killed, checks out very quickly. She nurses in a hospital which shakes her up further; gets the last body blow when Wait returns, now at the height of a national career and still attracted to her, but not enough to make him overlook the narrowness of mind and heart which is Dorothes. And with her son off to war, Dorothea finds herself thoroughly repudiated and alone. A knowledgeable, pointed showing-up of the selfcentered select, as they are found wanting in a modern world, and a good woman's book.

Pub Date: June 28, 1946

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1946

Categories: FICTION