Even their animals bicker, each individual's cat or dog pitted against the others'. They more or less dislike each other, and yet they remain together, sniping and bickering and scratching out some shabby kind of life for themselves. Baby June is dyslexic to the point of complete illiteracy. One of Jasper's eyes has been shot out by Baby June in a childhood accident. Each of the aging Swifts-Jasper and his sisters April, May, and Baby June-is in some way flawed. Time After Time describes a family already ruined, living in an Irish manor house whose disorder and decay only dimly reflect the condition of its inhabitants. Charleses of Good Behaviour were angels of kindness. But compared to the Swifts in Time After Time, the St. The members of that family destroyed each other, and that they did so with all due courtesy made the destruction no less cruel.
Her first novel in a quarter-century, Good Behaviour was a dark, subtle, savagely amusing study of the decline of a wellborn Irish family after the First World War. To Americans, however, only one of her books is likely to be familiar: Good Behaviour, issued in her own name both in England and the United States in 1981. Farrell, which was her pseudonym when she published 11 novels between 19. MOLLY KEANE is perhaps best known to British
By ANNE TYLER ANNE TYLER's most recent novel is Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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