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From the Saturday Review of Literature, May 14, 1927: MURRAY SHEEHAN’S “Half-Gods” gives a depressing answer to the question, What Price Centaurs in Missouri? It is no slight trick of legerdemain to force on skeptical readers the acceptance of a centaur in perfectly modern farm surroundings, and yet Mr. Sheehan accomplishes it. After the first shock of discovery that, instead of the reputable black mule expected, the Durnan mare has given birth to a creature “having the body of a horse and, superimposed upon that, the white torso of an indisputably human baby,” the fantastic and the realistic run so smoothly together in double harness that there is no consciousness of incongruity. The centaur grows up with the Durnan children, accepted by them and by the neighborhood, so completely in fact that when Mr. Durnan proposes to turn an honest penny by exhibiting the young animal in a side-show the community finds novelty so lacking that this commercial sortie is a flat failure. While young, the centaur plays with wood nymphs and strange folk of other times, and speaks in classic tongue. But environment is too strong for beauty, and he slowly sinks to the level of the grocery store loafers, his proudest moment when, his dreams repudiated and forgotten, he is accepted by them as one of themselves. In the story of the Durnan family running along with this, the struggle of the romantic and imaginative young Donald parallels somewhat, on the upward curve, the degeneration of the centaur. It is not difficult to find a symbolic moral, or several of them, but there is no forcing of the symbolic note. Despite some rather timid characterization, Mr. Sheehan’s book is an interesting excursion into noonday dreamland.
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| Author: | Murray Sheehan |
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| Language: | English |
| File Size: | 1.6 |
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| Price: | FREE |
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