DADDY'S GIRL

by Thomas Savage ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 21, 1970

Thomas Savage is a storyteller of sophisticated skills which include a talent for guying the square world to which he obviously belongs (like Stephen Birmingham) and which Daddy's girl subverts in an appealing fashion. Marty is a warmer type of Darling whose lather walked out on her leaving her a primary principle of ""transcending the rules as others know them."" Chris, always a little in love with her and even closer than on hand when necessary, records her life cycle from the time when he first knew her in college; through her marriage to Walter (a prim, Presbyterian type) who went off to war while she did her patriotic utmost by the whole navy; through her divorce and finally remarriage to a lawyer, John. But Marty, who had always believed that sex has nothing to do with love, will be destroyed by love during the long vigil until John's death (a brain tumor) and his insistent, perverse corroboration of his failing powers. And from that time on Marty has almost disappeared in an alcoholic haze until. . . . Savage manages to tell a genuinely sexy story with considerable fleshly candor without sullying it, or worse, boring you to death with l'acte gratuit. All in all a very alluring entertainment about one of those lost lost loves.

Pub Date: Oct. 21, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION