SIX BLUE HORSES

by Yvonne Escoula ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 17, 1970

Once there were eight and now there are five in Aunt Martha's Chinese antiquities shop in the Auteuil quarter of Paris. On the track of some thieves on the track of the horses are Jean-Pierre and Yves, The Twins. Abetting the too-identical pair is the concierge's daughter, big Margot, but complicating things is Mother who despises Aunt Martha and Orientalia: ""'That looks Chinese to me,' she would remark of anything that seemed to her the least bit strange."" And stiffening the quaint affair is the conspicuous translation that further removes an already thrice-removed mystery--counting the French environs, the profusion of Chinese effluvia (poems, names, games, relics), and The Twins so remote from la mode americaine. Harmless, however, for culture-vultures.

Pub Date: March 17, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: S. G. Phillips

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION