THE FIRST PERSON

by Richard Mealand ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 16, 1950

A rather tawdry piece about a New York columnist, who can't quite make up his mind what is most important to him :- his feud with Harry Bannock (recognizable as a gossip hound type of columnist of countrywide fame), his own bursts of inspiration, his projected book, or his love life. There too he finds himself at odds with himself, bored with his wife, beguiled by his affair with a clever woman journalist, and easy prey to his emotions when he finds himself newly equipped with a personable young secretary. An impersonator supplies melodrama on the side when he uses Luke's name while posing as lover of a naive young woman -- and gets her pregnant. Then Luke- going sentimental for a change- gives the gossip hound savory meat by agreeing to finance the girl so basely betrayed in his name. All very lush with names named and full flavor of the Fleet Street-New York style-background of bars and haunts. Mealand may know his stuff -- but his readers deserve a better book from him.

Pub Date: Feb. 16, 1950

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1950

Categories: FICTION