ANOTHER PART OF THE HOUSE

by Winston M. Estes ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 13, 1970

In the beginning this idles along in a dust and depression small town in Texas and you might wonder if there weren't someone around to spike the Doctor Pepper. But part way through, Mr. Estes' novel, which is manifestly real, moves in on your sympathies which eventually will be altogether appropriated. This is the year that Larry Morrison is ten; the year that a man takes fifteen hundred dollars from a bank and commits suicide; and that Larry learns that Uncle Calvin who lives with them, a mean, shiftless and jobless sort, has stolen from his father's drugstore--a little money and a last bottle of Bayer's aspirin. This is also the time that his older brother Tad, the most popular and best looking boy in town, has the flu which becomes the pneumonia which kills him. . . and Larry is left wondering whether he'd pulled the covers off him in his sleep. Another Death in the Family it's not--but Mr. Estes tells his story in terms which speak to everyone and extends the experience--""When a person dies, there's certainly a lot more to it than being sad."" He'll find readers--another part of the house might be any room, anytime, anywhere.

Pub Date: April 13, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION