OUTSIDE EDEN

by Isabel Scott Rorick ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 13, 1945

When for some time one has been yearning audibly for ""another Mr. and Mrs. Cugat"", it is too often disillusioning to have the wish granted. But this time, Isabel Rorick has done it again: She has given us flurries to fiascos bordering on domestic dissolution which are very gay and just as beguiling as the first episodes in the conjugal career of the couple. Once again Mrs. Cugat's more impulsive gestures lead to trouble, met with imperturbability by Mr. Cugat. How Mrs. Cugat does not distinguish herself in a male duck-shooting sacrosanct; how she invites Mr. Cugat's British cousin Adela -- and disaster- for the sake of local prestige; how she descends from the notion of an imported couple to a dusky domestic, Vanilla, whose husband is in hiding from the law; how her unwanted acquisition, Gertrude, a mongrel, corrupts a pedigreed line; and how she crowns their childlessness with twins-male- while Mr. Cugat copes with anything from cellar shelves to a mother-in-law. Grand fun -- good relief. And just in time for the Christmas sales!

Pub Date: Nov. 13, 1945

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1945

Categories: FICTION