The Ivory Fan
By
Adrian Heard
When Lily Kellaway makes the observation, "It is better to be a slave to a man, which is natural, than to a woman, which is intolerable," she recites the text upon which the author of The Ivory Fan has built up a novel that is at once humorous in its cynicism and cynical in its humor. At the same time he gives us a pastel of certain phases of life comprehensive in its coloring and bitterly uncompromising of line.
This is an unconventional book, full of incident and plenty of clever dialogue.
G.P. Putnam's Sons
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