Short Stories
The Temptation of Don Volpl. By Alfred Hayes. Gollancz. 175 pp.
Alfred Hayes has already made his mark as a novelist, and his latest volume, which contains three short stories, is notable for the sympathetic insight he shows in unravelling the ‘ complexities of human nature that are the same the whole world over. His first story gives the book its title. Don Volpi is a priest who in his unregenerate earlier life had bound himself to a woman who later returned to haunt his thoughts and to compel his selfbetrayal. “The Gondola” is an episode, concise/ but vicious in tone, that illustrates the complexity of the colour problem in the United States. A long monologue, “The Beach at Ocean View,” completes the volume. It is uttered by a mother who has just lost her child in a street accident. This is the deepest story in the book—it is written from a tragic vision of life.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29656, 28 October 1961, Page 3
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