IT'S AN OLD COUNTRY

by J.B. Priestley ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1967

Paste up as always two gold stars for plot and personnel, ring out two cheers for Mr. Priestley, dean of storytellers. This one, about earnest Tom, in his thirties, university teacher from Australia, who on the request of his dying mother goes to England to look for his long lost father, keeps the reader loping around through the shoddy byways of the new England, the lost charm of the old, the excitement and dangers of change. In his search, through which Tom meets a disreputable cousin, a troll king of a wise old man, a beautiful icy hostess of the jet set, women who have loved or been loved by his father, and assorted village, town and seafaring types, Tom unravels the mystery of the estrangement of his parents. He also sketches in at last a portrait of his father, charming, irresponsible, at times desperate, gentle. Filling in his father's past brings him to a recognition of his own direction and the love of a sound sort named Judy....Very heavy on circumstance, stodgy young people, but marvelous wayside characters and--reliably--remarkably--another keen story hour at Mr. P's.

Pub Date: May 15, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown-A.M.P.

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1967

Categories: FICTION