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A Generation of Vipers: An absolutely addictive and page-turning British cozy mystery (A Dr Nell Ward Mystery Book 4)

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Lest these comments dissuade you from purchasing and reading this book, it is important to reiterate this is a very insightful collection of essays. His thoughts on women obviously reek of being a bit dated but probably have more kernels of truth in them than is fashionable to admit nowadays. Look to your self to make certian your - and your characters - are doing the right thing, do not simply allow yourself to be led by anyone or any thing.

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His observation the United States is strong enough and flexible enough to become a military dictatorship, (as he insists it did during World War II, among others) and then stop being one again is encouraging, if his corresponding belief that would could entertain socialism “just long enough” to recover from economic crises was both excessively optimistic and ultimately mistaken. An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. From the 1920's onward, he was a clear opponent of the American adulation of "Mothers" of the authoritarian stamp.

Though Wylie’s daughter disputes it, Wylie eventually came to believe that the wild success of Vipers became his albatross, overshadowing everything else he wrote. Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Philip Gordon Wylie was the son of Presbyterian minister Edmund Melville Wylie and the former Edna Edwards, a novelist, who died when Philip was five years old. Vipers went through 11 printings in 1943 alone and went on to sell 180,000 copies in hardcover by 1954. To abide in it composedly is to be either a lama beyond reach of all earthly things or perilously mistaken in the acceptance of slack composure as inviting, when it is hell's latchstring.

Picking it up again after four decades, I remembered little about it except (of course) mom and a general atmosphere of splenetic outrage.

He joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1925, only to be dropped from the magazine two years later. Perhaps haunted by his own nightmarish experiences with Hollywood, Philip Wylie died 10 days later, on October 25. As DI James Clark begins to investigate, a pattern emerges pointing towards this being the work of a serial killer. When it’s revealed that he had a grudge against Miranda Thornton he becomes a murder suspect as well. Namely, just because one aspect of society is deeply flawed -- say religion for example -- does mean that it's opposite -- science in this case -- is good or offers meaningful solutions.It would be difficult to introduce this book without a least a passing on word about its late author, Philip Wylie (1902-1971).

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