On Green Dolphin Street A Novel

"Faulks, who is English, has taken considerable risks in setting the novel in a country he does not seem to know especially well and in a year that now seems surprisingly distant, and for the most part he has overcome them. Every once in a while Faulks insists on showing off his research..., but mostly he gets it right....He gets the country's mood right -- balanced uneasily between the fears of the Cold War and the optimism of Kennedy -- but without belaboring the point....There are times, to be sure, when he lays the emotions on a little heavily....Faulks is a romantic at heart, and romanticism often crosses the line between exquisite feeling and wretched excess. But he has given us three very real, immensely appealing people, and he has put them through an experience to which only the hardhearted can fail to respond with sympathy and empathy."Faulks, Sebastian is the author of 'On Green Dolphin Street A Novel' with ISBN 9780375704567 and ISBN 0375704566.