SUMMER AT FAIRACRE
Miss Read, Read, . . Houghton Mifflin, $12 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-618-12704-7
To say that for those who like this sort of thing this book is definitely the sort of thing they like is generally understood to be damning with faint praise, but in this case it should be understood as an accolade. Miss Read's loving evocation of life in the Cotswold village of Fairacre tells us that it is possible to go home again, even to a place that does not exist at all, and never did. Fairacre is the English village of our collective unconscious, a thoroughly nostalgic creation. Dora Saint, writing under the nom de plume and in the character of "Miss Read," English schoolteacher, has written 40 books about village and country life. Since the 1950s,
Reviewed on: 05/14/2001
Genre: Fiction
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