Jump to content

Homecomings (novel)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Homecomings
First edition (UK)
AuthorCharles Percy Snow
LanguageEnglish
SeriesStrangers and Brothers
PublisherMacmillan Publishers (UK)
Charles Scribner's Sons (US)
Publication date
1956
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe New Men 
Followed byThe Affair 

Homecomings is the seventh book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. The events concern the personal life of narrator Lewis Eliot.

Plot synopsis

[edit]

Following his wife's death, Eliot begins seeing Margaret. Her subsequent, and unsuccessful, marriage to another man leads to a difficult affair.

Reception

[edit]

In a 1956 book review in Kirkus Reviews summarized the book as "An inordinately objective observer, C. P. Snow's leisurely narrative has a cumulative validity; it is also impressive in its breadth and control."[1]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Homecomings". Kirkus Reviews. 5 October 1956.