THE CHINESE ROOM

by Vivian Connell ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Deep purple, in an uninhibited novel largely about sex, which wanders now and again into perversion, psychiatry, and Oriental eccentricities. The publishers claim affinity with D. H. Lawrence, which might be recognisable only in the very obviously exerted efforts of the characters to find physical passion. They are Nicholas, an English banker, whose wife Muriel had been consistently frigid; Sidone, his secretary and paid mistress, who is aloof, baffling, and is revealed to have a cloven hoof; Saluby, a psychiatrist, who ""awakens"" Muriel, the result of which ricochets on Nicholas so that by the close, husband and wife find complete satisfaction in each other. Can only see one type of market -- and one reason for reading it.

Pub Date: N/A

ISBN: 1419124285

Page Count: -

Publisher: Dial

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1942

Categories: FICTION