Quite an old-fashioned sort of story (and it's short enough to be no more than a "story"). It's sentimental, indeed; the thing I like about it, though, is the constantly maintained hunter's uncertainty about the guilt due to killing foxes, not dismissed even at the reconciliatory end. Plus, the writ...
We revisit Lucinda from Roller Skates, several years older and suffering from the recent loss of her father. This has a very different feel from Roller Skates. Older and less exuberant. But Lucinda is still Lucinda and it’s a beautiful book. [Oct. 2008]
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