THE LOVERS

by Kathleen Winsor ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 10, 1952

One novelette (On Rearing Mountain by Lewmenade Luke) two long short stories The Silent Land and In Another Country may have been written by the author for her own entertainment, but they don't provide much for her readers. Even those how found Forever Amber and Star Money to their taste, will feel that this anatomy of sexual deviation and excess, against a background of satanism and lunacy, is hard to take. The first and major part of the book deals with the devil's gleeful experiment with a mother and a daughter, both taken at their prime of beauty and sexual vitality, who fall in love with him. The Silent Land presents a bride whose first yearning on return from her honeymoon is to see her lover- and who deals with the interference of friends and relatives by making herself nonexistent to them. In Another Country concerns a strange and lovely girl who can become a kitten- a mammoth cat-or a panther at will, and whose fascination brings the elusive Eric to the point of abjuring his bachelorhood when he strangles the panther- and finds that his love is dead....An inadequate and indecorous performance, but it's hard to say just how sexcessful this will be when publicity may well make a mock of the power of the press.

Pub Date: Sept. 10, 1952

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1952

Categories: FICTION