Volume 26, Number 18 · November 22, 1979
Ford's Modern Romance
By Alfred Kazin
Parade's End
by Ford Madox Ford
Vintage, 836 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford's tetralogy, revolves around Christopher Tietjens, 'the last British Tory,' a Yorkshire gentleman of ancient family and impeccable instincts whose dazzling, promiscuous wife is so enraged by his perfection that she tries for almost nine hundred pages to destroy him. It is a prodigiously fluent and inventive fiction that is no less captivating for being such a vibrant representation of Ford Madox Ford's absurd mind. (It is now being published for the first time in a single paperback.)
Review, 2380 words
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