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A Father &
His Fate
1957
Miles Mowbray, the central figure... is one of Ivy Compton-Burnett's most successful domestic dictators in the marriage of comedy with sheer awfulness.
His three daughters become mere symbols of powerlessness, in their bondage to him and to their unmarried state.
Language is their only weapon, and this they use to devastating effect.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"I venture to predict that all her books will be read with pleasure and great respect when little else in current fiction is remembered."
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Isabel Murray, Scotsman
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