THE HONEYED PEACE

by Martha Gellhorn ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 27, 1953

These short stories have their being in the small, personal effects of war -- in Paris, the United States, England, Havana, Rome, Madrid and Israel -- and, while accenting the feminine, concentrate on a hopeless and desperate inner world. The wife of a collaborator, a German exile in America, Polish fighters who have learned to live again, a rebellious wife on a night flight from Miami, a young American who sees the face of peace in ancient beauty, the unseeing, but not unfeeling, eye of a visitor in Jaffa- these are the people in their time and within their frame of memories. There's a touch of Harvey for the writer who found security in his hallucinatory psychiatrist and a novelette in the degradation an Italian lawyer inflicts on a young English girl when he subdues and nearly destroys her through sex. The reportorial illusion is shaded off by the feeling for human values -- and human failings and the lot, by just those qualities, is not marked by any febrile femininity. Your special short story market.

Pub Date: Aug. 27, 1953

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1953

Categories: FICTION