This combination of story-dream-ancestor identification- past-present-future, is a pattern of a man repeating himself. In...

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This combination of story-dream-ancestor identification- past-present-future, is a pattern of a man repeating himself. In kaleidoscopic form, generations mingle, father, grandfather, sons seem to repeat the motive. It is at times confusing; there is a biblical ring to some of the writing, and a certain lustiness in the handling of the material. Once in a while the attempt to capture the quicksilver quality of mental processes is successful. But one needs to be a James Joyce to get away with it -- and Robert P. Tristram Coffin aint no James Joyce.

Pub Date: April 8, 1941

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1941

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