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Homecomings (novel)

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1956 novel by C. P. Snow For other novels, see Homecoming (disambiguation) § Fiction.

Homecomings
First edition (UK)
AuthorC. P. Snow
LanguageEnglish
SeriesStrangers and Brothers
PublisherMacmillan Publishers (UK)
Charles Scribner's Sons (US)
Publication date1956
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe New Men 
Followed byThe Affair 

Homecomings is the seventh book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. The events concern the personal life of narrator Lewis Eliot.

Plot synopsis

Following his wife's death, Eliot begins seeing Margaret. Her subsequent, and unsuccessful, marriage to another man leads to a difficult affair.

Reception

In a 1956 book review in Kirkus Reviews summarized the book as "An inordinately objective observer, C. P. Snow's leisurely narrative has a cumulative validity; it is also impressive in its breadth and control."

References

  1. "Homecomings". Kirkus Reviews. 5 October 1956.
C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers


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