"Home Sweet Home!" 1949 STAVIS, Barrie
$250
STAVIS, Barrie
Inscribed to literary agent George Bye and signed by the author on FFEP
[252] pp.
Sheridan House
1949
8 1/4" x 5 3/4"
IKE uncounted others over the country, the young people in Mr. Stavis' new novel could do with a larger apartment. But there is none to be had for luck and money—at least not for the money Johnny and Emily Singleton have. But Johnny, with a true entrepreneur's eye, concocts elaborate exchange scheme that involves thirteen families and the simultaneous moving of all of them. To help the fun along, the moving men run out of trucks and borrow a dozen or so hearses and a pregnant lady decides to have her heir in the midst of it all.
Even without investigating the plot any further, the possibilities become obvious—perhaps too obvious; and it must be said that Mr. Stavis, a playwright and novelist, exhausts virtually all of them before he is through with us. But in the excitement of continually adding parts to his jerry-built comedy, the wit and humor get lost. If the notion of a prospective mother going to the hospital in a hearse strikes you as hilarious, then you are going to have a glorious time with “Home, Sweet Home!" If not, you may find it as flimsy as Johnny's plan for getting living space.