WEYMOUTH SANDS

by John Cowper Powys ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A highly selective audience, but an enthusiastic one, awaits this much postponed novel by the author of A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE, and WOLF SOLENT. An English seaside town, saturated in the mists and salt breezes, is the setting for a strange, perverse sort of story, in which the interplay of characters -- most of them abnormal or drawn out of line -- takes precedence over a rather obscure, indirect sort of story. A few of them are unforgettable:-the elderly clown, married to a half crazy wife and in love with a girl in his own troupe; an evangelist who courts disaster by preaching on the Esplanade instead of the sands, and who captures the worship of a young girl, the daughter of a Punch and Judy man; a seaman, obsessed with hate for the town capitalist who has wronged him; several girls, thwarted in their emotional life, and seeking adventure, -- a strange group. Not for the ""average reader"" -- but with passages of such rare beauty, that it is sure to get an appreciative press.

Pub Date: N/A

ISBN: 0879517069

Page Count: -

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1934

Categories: FICTION