OCTOBER ISLAND (246 pp.)William MarchLittle, Brown ($3).
At 42, Irma Barnfield has been a missionary's wife too long not to recognize their new South Pacific station, October Island, as a "comedown." But she knows better than to complain. To her husband Sam, so dedicated that he has never consummated his marriage, it is simply another "field that awaits the plow of the Lord."
Around Irma and Samand an assortment of turn-of-the-century islandersNovelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittelholzer.
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