The Golden Hawk is another bauble on Frank Yerby’s string of best-selling period romances. Yerby sets this one in the West Indies in the 1600s human life was cheap and New World gold plentiful. Everything about this potboiler is totally predictable.
Archive for April, 2008
The Golden Hawk Is a Turkey
Posted in 1948 Bestselling Novels, Adventure, Historical, Romance, tagged piracy, pirates, seventheenth century, Spain, West Indies on April 30, 2008 | Comments Off
Tomorrow Will Be Better Skewers the American Dream
Posted in 1948 Bestselling Novels, tagged adolescent pregnancy, inner city youth, Poverty on April 23, 2008 | Comments Off
Maggy and Frankie work hard to make a better life for their kids, but they can never save enough to get ahead. Living on the edge makes them cranky and irrational. Bitterness become entrenched and bickering pulls families apart.
Bishop’s Mantle clothes timeless issues
Posted in Romance, tagged Episcopal Church on April 16, 2008 | Comments Off
Agnes Sligh Turnbull’s The Bishop’s Mantle is a religious novel that avoids preaching and focuses on personal faith.
Dinner at Antoine’s Always Delights
Posted in 1948 Bestselling Novels, 1949 Bestselling Novels, Mystery, Romance, tagged Louisiana, New Orleans on April 10, 2008 | Comments Off
Dinner at Antoine’s is an endlessly pleasing novel. Since I found it on my mother’s bookshelf back in the ’60s, I’ve read it many times. I never remember reading it until I’m almost done, and I enjoy it every time.
Mailer War Novel Is Hell
Posted in 1948 Bestselling Novels, Adventure, Psychological novel, Suspense, War, tagged battle fatigue, Pacific battles, World War II on April 2, 2008 | Comments Off
The Naked and the Dead follows an army platoon through the terror and boredom of war. Norman Mailer weaves stories of each man’s background into the story of their part in the victory over the Japanese on Anopopei Island.
