EVELYN PRENTICE

by W. E. Woodward ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 9, 1933

The story of a young and charming woman, brought up by an artist father, and married to a sedate and learned criminal lawyer, twice her age, who gives her everything in a material way but starves her imagination and her spirit of adventure. Bored, baffled, unaware of her needs, she allows herself to drift into a rather sordid affair with a young poet, a man who has feathered his nest at the expense of rich women, and has no scruples about adding her to the list. An attempt to escape the net that is closing around her, precipitates approach to blackmail -- and worse. At the crucial point, the lawyer husband proves and ever ready help in time of trouble. W. E. Woodward has a faculty for telling a rather commonplace story exceedingly well, of building his situations and characters so that one gets the undercurrent as well as the surface moods. In spite of unconvincing points in the denouement, the book is good reading and should be easy selling and a library asset.

Pub Date: June 9, 1933

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Knopf

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1933

Categories: FICTION