THE GIFT OF JANICE

by Max Wylie ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

The father of Janice Wylie, whose brutal murder in August, 1963 has received spectacular press coverage, offers here a brief, grieving commemorative volume. ""We are here to give thanks for the life of Janet Wylie,"" said the Reverend Dr. Paul Austin Wolfe at her burial, and it is this that her father would do. Hedrecalls the exper-lence of Janice's twenty-one year span, from her first battle for life when as anRH baby she was first in the hospital's to live. He recalls her difficulties with algebra, overcome to receive her school's ""Big NB"" award, her love of dancing that made her a welcome patron at the Stork Club, her persuasiveness and sureness that made her the youngest girl ever employed on NBC's Guidette Staff, her incipient flights in theatre, her job at Newsweek. But more, these are the reflections of a father whose basic question was ""Are my children safe?"" Who advises, ""If it is well to count your blessings, it is wiser to consider your vulnerability."" These are the memories too of a son whose minister father was devoted to his calling but had no time or thought for his children, whose self-isolation at the time of his second wife's (Max and Phil and Ted's much loved stepmother) death taught Max a lesson in the ways of grief; of a family dogged by the decimating tragedy of early deaths (his mother lost in childbirth, his brother Ted mysteriously dead on a Warsaw pavement at 23). Thus this is a cumulative grieving as well as a sad admonition, to give and receive love while there is time.

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Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION