Homecomings (novel)
Author | Charles Percy Snow |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Strangers and Brothers |
Publisher | Macmillan Publishers (UK) Charles Scribner's Sons (US) |
Publication date | 1956 |
Media type | |
Preceded by | The New Men |
Followed by | The Affair |
Homecomings is the seventh book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. The events concern the personal life of narrator Lewis Eliot.
Plot synopsis[]
Following his wife's death, Eliot begins seeing Margaret. Her subsequent, and unsuccessful, marriage to another man leads to a difficult affair.
Reception[]
In a 1956 book review in Kirkus Reviews summarized the book as "An inordinately objective observer, C. P. Snow's leisurely narrative has a cumulative validity; it is also impressive in its breadth and control."[1]
References[]
- ^ "Homecomings". Kirkus Reviews. 5 Oct 1956.
Categories:
- 1956 British novels
- English novels
- Novels by C. P. Snow
- British political novels
- Macmillan Publishers books
- Political novel stubs
- 1950s novel stubs