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Bezig met laden... Enchanted Ground (1933)door Temple Bailey
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Okay, that would be first published in 1933. This is the equivalent of the Harlequins of the 50's and 60's (yes, I realize there are still Harlequins being published). What is fascinating about reading early chick lit is seeing how the characters are managed, what the gender stereotypes are, what the sexual encounters are like (here...well, the sheltered heroine trembles when the hero touches her cheek) (and I mean the cheek on her face, mind). We have post Depression adjustment, loyal black servants, noble country doctor and parson, troubled Lucifer-beautiful hero/antihero, spunky parson's wife, etc. Incredibly disturbing overtones of abuse between heroine and her father, eep. Orange groves and a hurricane and a devoted, dying mother. What more could you desire? ( )
Sure fire for your circulating library, and therefore easy money. All the anticipated ingredients of a new Temple Bailey, blended with her usual skill, for she can tell a story. The setting is post-boom Florida. The characters include three idealists, -- a young clergyman, the charming nurse whom he marries, and the disillusioned young doctor; two newcomers from Virginia, a father of heavy hand and light head, and a daughter, incredibly untouched by 20th century tendencies; and there is the villain, rank materialist, but charming and rich. A hurricane plays the part of deus ex machina at the end, and the intimation is that the good are rewarded and the evil punished (or at least removed from the scene of action).
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