BARBARA GREER

by Stephen Birmingham ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Barbara Greer, like Young Mr. Keefe (1958) who preceded her, has the comforting assurance which comes with background, money and her lovely looks. But a disquieting day or two in her life show her that her polished world is not shatter- proof, while sequences from earlier years are summoned up to frame the events which now take place. Married to Carson, who is away on long selling trips and has transplanted her from her Connecticut home and the town which her paper mill family has always owned, Barbara is querulous about the life she leads in Locustville, Penna. She also takes every opportunity to go home to the admiration of her parents and a fringe flirtation with her sister's husband, Barney. This last trip however is disastrous; she learns the real extent of her father's drinking and his dereliction which is costing them the business; she sees her sister in a predatory pose, she listens to Barney as he strips the natural finish off all these ""lovely"" people, agrees to a rendezvous- just before he suicides- so that there is much to account for to Carson who is readier than she is to square it away... While Barbara is less real, and less approachable, than most of the people who surround her- her story has popular points of interest and a slick readability. Surely for women- a hot weather item.

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Publisher: Little, Brown

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: FICTION