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Book Review by Lois Sevareid
A Review of SONS by Evan Hunter I believe that you will find SONS, by Evan Hunter, a well-written and absorbing novel. It is a story of three generations, grandfather, father, and son, in three of America’s overseas wars, World Wars I and II, and the Vietnam War. It is certainly a ‘contemporary” novel. (Perhaps it seems especially ‘contemporary” to me because I was, and am, living during the times of its events.) There is a minimum of Anglo-Saxon four-letter words, unusual in a contemporary novel, and particularly so in a novel about war. Its delineations on sex are restrained and in good taste (always supposing you consider any expositions on sex as in good taste.)
The author’s emphasis is on the psychology of young men going into battle and into love, and the juxtaposition of the experiences if the three generations, each in his own time, his own war, and his own love affairs, presents the reader with interesting parallels. Overall, Mr. Hunter makes a very good case for the futility and senselessness of war itself, in any time and place.
There are very few “modern” novels, at least those written since 1930, that appeal to me. But I lave no hesitation in recommending Mr. Hunter’s “SONS". The novel reads easily, is fast-paced, and I think it well worth the small amoui^ of time it takes to read it.
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