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The Mackerel Plaza

The Mackerel Plaza

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Fishey MACKERAL
Review: Although the header of the sub-head ( a DeVries-ism should, he see it) is mis-spelled (MACKERAL PLAZA is the actual spelling)would give reverand Mackeral somthing approaching a heart attack, the book itself has more to do with the reverend giving himself a heart attack. His wife died in a canoe accident, so he blames himself. But at the church gathering where he and she were canoeing a churchmember has recorded all on Super-8 Film. His sister in law comes to his rescue(after a fashion), and all turns out well. The ususl DeVries-isms (naked under the overcoat, jacket...)

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Fishey MACKERAL
Review: Although the header of the sub-head ( a DeVries-ism should, he see it) is mis-spelled (MACKERAL PLAZA is the actual spelling)would give reverand Mackeral somthing approaching a heart attack, the book itself has more to do with the reverend giving himself a heart attack. His wife died in a canoe accident, so he blames himself. But at the church gathering where he and she were canoeing a churchmember has recorded all on Super-8 Film. His sister in law comes to his rescue(after a fashion), and all turns out well. The ususl DeVries-isms (naked under the overcoat, jacket...)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Grace arrives amid extravagant wit
Review: Andrew Mackerel, a trendy pastor of a trendy Connecticut church, perhaps Unitarian, finds a new wife and God's grace (mediated through other people) in this wildly funny and ultimately touching satire. Read it and you will find that the witty quotations widely extracted from it can be used to misrepresent it, as on many militantly atheist WWW sites.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: DeVries Forever!
Review: Peter DeVries is probably the best American comic (as in funny, humorous, witty, sophisticated, highly intelligence) of the 20th century, and he seems on the verge of going totally out of print. This would be a shame of enormous magnitude. His oeurve is of extraordinary excellence.

The Mackeral Plaza was published in the mid '50's and has to do with a recently widowed Minister (of a progressive Protestant denomination) with the last name Mackeral who wants to remarry, but finds to going difficult because his congregation and the community at large consider his late wife a saint, and assume he will be content to continue as a widower for the rest of his life. An original proposition, which many of DeVries's books are noted for. The plot gets more complicated as he tries to placate his would-be bride, who wants him to commit, and as he slowly realizes that his late wife's sister, who has been living with him as a housekeeper/helper, is in love with him. Fine, Fine, comic novel, just slightly below his earlier Chick Swallow novels, Comfort Me With Apples and The Tents of Wickedness, and the later Reuben, Reuben and Let Me Count the Ways. I envy everyone who has not read DeVries before; they have a great treat in store.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: DeVries Forever!
Review: Peter DeVries is probably the best American comic (as in funny, humorous, witty, sophisticated, highly intelligence) of the 20th century, and he seems on the verge of going totally out of print. This would be a shame of enormous magnitude. His oeurve is of extraordinary excellence.

The Mackeral Plaza was published in the mid '50's and has to do with a recently widowed Minister (of a progressive Protestant denomination) with the last name Mackeral who wants to remarry, but finds to going difficult because his congregation and the community at large consider his late wife a saint, and assume he will be content to continue as a widower for the rest of his life. An original proposition, which many of DeVries's books are noted for. The plot gets more complicated as he tries to placate his would-be bride, who wants him to commit, and as he slowly realizes that his late wife's sister, who has been living with him as a housekeeper/helper, is in love with him. Fine, Fine, comic novel, just slightly below his earlier Chick Swallow novels, Comfort Me With Apples and The Tents of Wickedness, and the later Reuben, Reuben and Let Me Count the Ways. I envy everyone who has not read DeVries before; they have a great treat in store.


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