Too Late the Phalarope

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Too Late the Phalarope | Critical Overview

Critics generally agree that Too Late the Phalarope, while often overshadowed by Cry, the Beloved Country, is Paton’s best work. At the time of publication, reviewers were already recognizing it as superior to its predecessor.

In his 1953 review, Harold C. Gardiner wrote that the novel is a “much more tautly drawn tale” than the first. He added that it is compassionate, while remaining “strong and manly, and manifests . . . a deeply felt realization of the moral plight, of the agony of soul of others.” Nicholas H. Z. Watts of Durham University Journal...

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