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Article: A DARKLY FUNNY TALE OF A FAMILY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 19, 1989
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QUEEN LEAR, by Molly Keane. E.P. Dutton. 233 pp. $17.95.
Irish writer Molly Keane, now well into her 80s, has written
another darkly funny, evocative novel about the Anglo-Irish gentry
in the first decades of this century. As is the case in so many of
Keane's books, the lives and fates of everyone in this novel are
bound to a great country house, in this case Deer Forest.
The first part of the novel takes place during the course of
one day, April 8, 1904. Eight-year-old Nicandra, named after her
father's favorite horse, lives at Deer Forest with her adored,
aloof Maman and gruff Dada, a man "almost unable to express himself
outside the vernaculars of Hunting, Racing, Shooting, ...