STRANGERS ARE COMING

by L.A.R. Wylle ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 12, 1941

A disappointing and somewhat amateurish job, from a good craftsman who knows her job better than this indicates. Satire on the jealousies and foibles of a college town in New England, when their boasted modernity is shattered when they are faced with ""foreigners"" in the flesh, refugees brought back by a scion of the town's leading family. He had been sent abroad to recover from a romance that shocked the social mores; he is caught to the Polish retreat, annexes an oddly assorted Troupe, and -- backed by an old aunt who likes to shock her neighbors -- brings them home, and then virtually deserts them when he is claimed by the snobbish element in the community. The story ends with a shifting of romances -- and conversion on the part of the town, none of which is convincing.

Pub Date: Nov. 12, 1941

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Random House

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1941

Categories: FICTION