Don’t Touch Me
Kantor
1951
It’s Friday and I have another novel of the 50s for everyone to enjoy. I was just admiring the cover art, when I realized this was written by MacKinlay Kantor. Kantor has quite a resume, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for the novel Andersonville. I can’t speak to this particular novel, but I have read Andersonville and it is excellent.
Mary
The Kirkus Review of this book at the time of its publication, has a warning for us. “Public Libraries- have a care.” The review starts “Jones and Mailer will seem sissies to some readers when they read MacKinlay Kantor’s orgy with sex rampant.” Don’t you know that this improved sales?
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mackinlay-kantor-3/dont-touch-me/
Did anyone else read the title of this book and then immediately sing in their heads “oh-oh oh oh-oh-oh,” ala M.C. Hammer style?
Of course, laughter (out loud at my desk) soon followed.
Nice yellowed pages, I bet they’re brittle too.
This Pulitzer Prize novel about the Civil War is claimed to be the greatest ever written.
Oh my, I bet Rex Parker would love to have this. He loves old paperbacks like this.
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What, dare I ask, is a ‘sing-song girl’? And why does the woman on the front cover look so pasty white?
With all the woman hungry/man hungry descriptions, all I can think about is cannibals.
I don’t get it. Are they in Korea or Japan?