Barbara GilesCritiques
Auteur de Bicycles Don't Fly
Critiques
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The story got going slowly, I thought, with lots of exposition, but eventually it became fairly absorbing, as Michel's interactions with his family, and with his friend, Peter, a Cajun struggling to rise above the prescribed societal slot for people his ethnicity, become more heated.
Through online research I learned that Barbara Giles was a relatively prominent member of the Leftist/Communist movement of the post-WW2 era. Having read that, it came as no surprise to me that this novel is at heart an exploration of class consciousness and that the book ends with a polemic. One might fairly say that this book is at least as interesting as an historical artifact than for the story itself. As I've mentioned previously here on LT, the book is listed in only three LT libraries: one is mine and one of the other two is Carl Sandburg's! For all those reasons, I'm glad I read this.½