THE OTHER CAROLINE

by Mary Jane Ward ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 1, 1970

Not so deep as a Snake Pit (who's to remember if it really was), but certainly far more convincing than last year's Counterclockwise, this smoothly synchronizes past and present and the blanked out area of a slipped, flipped identity. Who is the young woman in a neuropsychiatric hospital who refuses to be Caroline Kinkaid and denies knowing Mr. Kinkaid who visits her each weekend? As therapy, she is given an autobiographical daybook to type--that of Keri Dunlop and her marriage to quiet, Quaker Jock. He's trapped in a well paid job he loathes; she's trapped in just trying to keep paying the bills (country club and private schools) until her tattletale insomnia gives way to the total amnesia of her collapse. Literally this is another diary of a mad housewife although it's by no means as young (as it's supposed to be) or sophisticated. To create a genre--perhaps matronly suburban institutional gothic--most easily read to be sure.

Pub Date: Aug. 1, 1970

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Publisher: Crown

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION