Too Late the Phalarope

Too Late the Phalarope

"Too Late the Phalarope" is the second novel of Alan Paton, the South African author who is best known for writing Cry, the Beloved Country.

The summary on the dust jacket of the first UK edition reads, in part; 'The setting is again South Africa, but the tragedy this time is of a white man who, for complicated reasons, some of them not unconnected with his childhood and training, succumbs to the very temptations he might have been thought strong enough to resist. His downfall is recorded by his father's sister who watched the train of events, half foreseeing the danger yet unable to prevent it, and now in anguish blames herself.' Too Late the Phalarope, Alan Paton, Jonathan Cape, London, 1953]

The first paragraph is: 'Perhaps I could have saved him, with only a word, two words out of my mouth. Perhaps I could have saved us all. But I never spoke them.'


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