"A MAN OF FORTY"
MR. GERALD BULLETTS NOVEL In an author's note Mr. Gerald Bul]ett- states that his novel, "A Man of Forty," was finished last August, and suggests that in a world at war Dnvid Bromo's problem would have assumed quite different proportions. As a Civil Servant retired at the early age of 40 ho would have had less time for mooning about after his lovely young neighbour. Both the man of 40 and his friend, Adam Swinford, the baehelor of 30, arc humanlv drawn. Brome, with his settled "domesticity, who feels that life is slipping from him before he has plumbed the depths of ecstasy, is an old friend, but Mr. Bullctt has placed him interestingly in his family setting. Swinford is a good-looking cad who betrays a little dressmaker, wins the timorous heart of Brome's stepdaughter, and then makes a dead-set at Brome's young woman. The author hardly prepares us for the tragic ending and its sequel. "A Man of Forty," by Gerald Bullett. (Dent.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)
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