Lee, Laurie - Max Cosman (review date 1 April 1960)

Max Cosman (review date 1 April 1960)

SOURCE: "The Gift of Unabashed Recall," in The Commonweal, Vol. LXXII, No. 1, April 1, 1960, pp. 22-3.

[In the following review, Cosman praises the subject matter and stylistic aspects of The Edge of Day.]

Discussing a book by a lady of whom it might be said she walked with genius throughout her life, the editor of The Golden Horizon tells us that though he retains a very clear impression of the complicated characters who were her familiars, to wit, Mahler, Werfel and Kokoschka, he still remains baffled by the author herself. One thing, however, he does claim to understand: her ability to get over everything.

If, by this, Cyril Connolly means a containment of experience as much a forgetting as a remembering, then the animadversion does not apply to Laurie Lee, for the present book proves that he is one who has gotten over nothing in his past.

The Edge of Day, originally...

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