Hardcover: 251 pages
Publisher: Coward-McCann; 1st edition (1968)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0340042621
ISBN-13: 978-0340042625
It's a kind of wrinkleproof, pleasantly glossy, novel about the warm feeling which comes up with the south wind of love. Namely for Lydia (whose husband Simeon has abandoned and divorced her) at forty two, when she goes to Portugal and Spain and falls in love with Paul (a wife and indeterminate career in the background); and for Christopher, her son, who is going to marry a somewhat gauche girl from Montana (with Lydia's disapproval): and her own willful daughter's affair which, wisely, Lydia terminates. There's no depth at all, anywhere, but the surfaces are shiny.
