THE MOONLIGHT (309 pp.)Joyce CaryHarper ($3). The Moonlight has the psychological suspense of a well-written thriller. But it is something more. It is the account of an English family trying to live by a Victorian code in the present-day world, told with personal aloofness from the tragic consequences that suggests the attitude of Thomas Hardy.
It concerns the twisted relationship of two sisters, Rose and Ella Venn. The hatred between them, writes Author Cary, "had a very long history, almost as long as their devotion." Rose, "an obstinate old spinster, thin...
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