Carola
Felix Forrest
A sophisticated, impressionistic recalling, in the avant- grade manner, of a globe-circling career of moral vagaries’ and political posturings that reads like pages from a psychiatrist’s notebook. Here is a childhood colored by a girlish crush, later intensified by the phobias of homosexuality, and then a long, far-flung life of disillusionment and frustration. There are a few months as the mistress and helper of a Communist; twenty years as the submissive Chinese wife of a revolutionary Communist who betrays the cause; a short reprieve with a Nazi; and escape as the wife of a Japanese spy whom she finally turns in to the Americans in exchange for her citizenship and reentry into the United States. The intimate life of a ”Liberal”, in love and in politics, told in cold and impersonal detail, against a sketchy history of Communism of the past few decades. Pedestrian, colorless fictional memoirs which might have turned into melodrama. ~ Kirkus Reviews
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Brief recall of a lesbian episode in the heroine’s girlhood
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| Genre | Biographical Fiction; Fiction |
| Publication Date | 1948 |
| Publisher | Duell, Sloan and Pearce |
| Notes | ‘I’ve never liked it, but then I have a low tolerance for some of my father’s psychological meanderings and for his fascination with cruelty.’ from Paul Linebarger’s daughter (http://www.cordwainer-smith.com/carola.htm). He also wrote under Cordwainer Smith. |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| BookID | 1795 |
