THE WAITING TIME

by Maurade Glennon ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 5, 1971

During this hiatus of changeless, meaningless days and nights in her native Irish village, Tracy, a rather disordered and uncertain woman nearing forty, escapes the past and avoids the future. Her marriage to Larry, who no longer loves her if he ever did, is totally void; she remembers the young man, now dead, to whom she had been really attached; and she meets again his cousin, Dan, with whom she has a regenerative affair although she is unwilling to make any decisions. Life, actually new life, does it for her and if the novel loses some of its initial somnolent seductiveness, it is only at the end when Tracy is appropriated by the expansive process of gestation. Some of it has the shadowy, retrospective lilt of one of Edna O'Brien's country girls without the saving grace of wayward humor or the toughness of spirit. On a lesser scale, then, an attractive book.

Pub Date: March 5, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1971

Categories: FICTION