From Library Journal
Mr. Noon adds a new (though unfinished) novel to the D.H. Lawrence canon. He worked on it in 1920 and 1921, the period immediately following Women in Love and The Lost Girl. The first part, published posthumously in 1934, is a satirical story of English provincial life. Part II (over two-thirds of the text) shifts to Germany and abruptly becomes a fictionalizedbut not much?version of Lawrence's elopement with Frieda von Richthofen Weekley. Frieda's character and her growing intimacy with Lawrence are presented with sharp immediacy. The novel follows the lovers from Germany across Austria to the Italian lakes before breaking off in midsentence. Mr. Noon is of course a major event for modern literary studies, but more casual readers of Lawrence will also want to try this "lost" novel. The biographical interest colors every page, and the narrative's vivid account of the lovers' developing relationship and of the world they move through is impressive. Keith Cushman, English Dept., Univ. of North Carolinia, Greensboro
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