Started: 4/18/06
Finished: 4/20/06
Pages: 182
Year: 1955, renewed 1983
Genre: Fiction
Grade: C
Reason for reading: pulled it off the shelf (received in bookbox)
Blurb (from jacket): "This novel of unusual charm, style and feeling, first published in 1955, speaks pointedly to us today as it considers, with a wicked delicacy, the rival claims of youth and age in the arenas of love-love changing, maturing, coming full circle.
"The time is the mid-twentieth century. In a society still sunlit and amply furnished with champagne and a virtually shockproof decorum, the lives of four people intersect. Two are young: Alexis, an English soldier-passionate and penniless-and Rose, a beautiful French actress who is, for a while, his lover. Another is old, a poet, a baronet and extremely attractive. He is Alexis' uncle, Sir George Dillingham, whom Rose will marry. Their child is Jenny, who will fall in love with Alexis. These loves, these desires, these tangled emotions flower and flower again in patterns constantly surprising, in a novel that is a rear delight to read-as it is to see in its theatrical incarnation, Andrew Lloyd Webber's first musical work since The Phantom of the Opera."
Opinion: You can take it and you can leave it. I wasn't thrilled by the read. I can see why it would make a good play, if not musical, but eh, not that great to read.
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