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By LOYAL McMILLIN
Drmorrat SprrUI Writer
Local author Jane Mcllvaine McClary will be the guest of honor at an autograph party to be held Saturday, October 3, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the home of Mary and James Jamieson near Sperryville.
Copies of McClary’s new book, “Maggie Royal,” will be available for purchase with proceeds going to benefit the Rappahannock County Library. For directions to the Jamieson’s home, call 987-8585.
Maggie Royal was begun at Ossabaw Island, Ga. in 1976 and ■ completed in Middleburg in 1980 by author Jane Mcllvaine McClary, who admits to its being a rather complex book.
Its 400-plus pages span two decades of tumultous American history, beginning with the depression years of the 30s, and on through the war years of the 40s. Its cast of characters varies from venal southern politicians to English nobility, and has one genuine villain who could easily have passed for Simon Legree a hundred years earlier.
The great and the mighty pass lightly through the script, which touches as readily on history as it does on romance, and the scene shifts from Stark Island off the coast of Georgia, to an England on the brink of war, then on through the war years. But it does this naturally as it follows young people who became of age just in time to become involved in that tremendous struggle.
As with most novels nowadays, there is sex and violence in the book. Sex scenes are frank and explicit, but done with an almost clinical detachment by the author. There is raunchy language and stable talk in places, but used not for the shock value but rather as an aid to picturing the character of the person involved.
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