"As
I read Me Bandy, You Cissie, the
fourth volume of the Bandy journals and the third to win the Leacock Medal for
Humour, two questions jumped out of the text."
One,
“What happened to his wife?,” comes to mind because the last Bandy book on my
list ended with the hero marrying Katherine Lewis, the girl with the alluring
squint. Now she’s dead,
and Bandy’s thoughts turn to two other women: the sweet Cissie Chaffington and
the“hot-blooded” Darya Fillipovna Fokov -
Dasha.
That delicate mix of sweet and steamy, comic and authentic may be the core of the Bandy
books and one answer to my second question:
“Why is it that I want to write like Donald Jack ?”
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