SHORT STORIES

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27676, 4 June 1955, Page 3

SHORT STORIES

M An™ irds J ’2 y ' By Vance Fainer. Angus and Robertson. 202 p, wS?Jl wed mterest will be felt ii the PalmS lOW;n Australian writer, t nee as s ' nce bc visited Christch rch Writers’ ° f the New Zea nd r- * .Conference at the time Shed^to 1 - Van , Ce Raimer t?as° £ this d is hi ! n f ove ? and two Plays, nd stories Wo ° Ur . h election of s >rt a He Writes with eXDPrip? pd tadi??? a un £ h£ d dtato«£ ordinary Australian peo le. tim»r IaI ?f Pe is authentic, but soietS^tol?? le tl 3 in ’ so that the poinlof fa the ?ut‘h^? ften has to be sat dX e • au th°rs own words instearlSof thlmes n ot r th ‘*7 dialogue itself - *e SEStga - -cepi boy’s d^. e - : h? the next ’ a tale oft a "footban’k" tO ?t s father who is flrtt X. 4?. • 11_hero ’ then a collector d thoroughly a s? d ck fin a al d y “ ? riminaL * concentton m • d - sent ‘mental is are about v Th ma]orlt y °f the stori« desires Un ?.-E eople or ab out tht the t disillusionment* This gi-Z ?h S ?' PP , ,nß ’ ° f childhood slight’v volume as a whole ) Chirm r , ma J a ncholy and nostalgil the mkr c Death ’ conflic t, violence and are “bslnt ea " n § tragedies of adult lif* away from' *? Ir Pa,mer Perhaps shiel the one I? then J. as the militiaman icl stead of =7 A? a ‘* h i as a ® panisb ifa shies away n rr^ USt .'i? llan background arms htaa 7 • m the cache of rust that he ought l ? a villager’s cupboar Perhaps it g ß m £? veal and does no Vance PalmS. hls own Person tha this stoA- ®v com ? n ? nts at the end o those w?n beiottS. like me, t through sJmL Z™" 1 conflict—lazincs, tn tne ? of hea rt. througl Pursuing *jys ou sh sheer incapacity foi At Tn^rato ll^! 0 the l r lOgical and ’ Palmer’s ca , n be sure of Mr * teflected^^’a^lis^rVeT 5 ’

cinißra schc, ol and Mr K. M 12hi, r ap ‘ PPd the author, of th? dr=m? b ' Provides a brief history a fall acflLm'?f ed t UCatlon ’ , fo Uowed by schools * f , rt s revival in modern of what ? d coocfading with a survey vivU ‘fa considers to be “the retwentieth Drama in the refl erf J h - cent *? ry an d of how this is is S . Choo! drama. The book tio?bm „n? <° ne ’ useful for informa or any n? ot - f °r any critical approach or any originality in its ideas _