Books: Voice from a Distant Country

Queen of a Distant Country By John Braine

Coward, McCann, 252 pp., $6.95 John Braine’s latest novel has all the virtues of a typical John Braine novel— it is quite readable, it focuses on recognizable human beings, its prose is lucid and generally unpretentious. It is, in short, a craftsmanlike work as well as a sincere and human one. Curiously enough, however, the novel fails to impress the reader. It’s the sort of book he can take or leave, for he feels that he has read it all before, long ago.

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Queen of a Distant Country By John Braine

Coward, McCann, 252 pp., $6.95 John Braine’s latest novel has all the virtues of a typical John Braine novel— it is quite readable, it focuses on recognizable human beings, its prose is lucid and generally unpretentious. It is, in short, a craftsmanlike work as well as a sincere and human one. Curiously enough, however, the novel fails to impress the reader. It’s the sort of book he can take or leave, for he feels that he has read it all before, long ago.