The Cradle Will Fall

(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, very minor dampstaining to lower corner of rear cover; the jacket is modestly edgeworn]. Novel about a young boy in a Jewish family in New Jersey, and his reactions to the illness and death of his mother. "Around the core of the boy's growing fear and final tragedy are his family world and the larger world of which the reader is made vividly aware." The Chicago Tribune critic found the book "written with acute insight and close range little boy perception," but also criticized its "several punctuationless, stream of consciousness passages." One suspects, although none of the contemporary reviews mention it, that there may be more than a touch of autobiography here, given that the author spent much of his childhood in New Jersey, and that the narrative takes place in the 1920s, when he was a boy himself. Seley published just one additional novel in America, "Baxter Bernstein: A Hero of Sorts," before moving to Spain in 1957; one more book, "The End of Mercy," was published in Amsterdam in 1969, and he died in 1982.

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Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company

Year: (c.1945)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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