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The Alternative

af George Barr McCutcheon

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A classic novel by George Barr McCutcheon, whose best known works include the series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, Brewster's Millions, a play and several films.
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“The Alternative” is one of the best works that I’ve read by George Barr McCutcheon. I like this author’s ability to create humorous scenarios, of which there are numerous in this novella.

At first I thought I’d picked up a dud, as the story opens with a few long-winded paragraphs, followed by muddled dialogue exchanges by a number of characters that are introduced to the reader all at once. Only when the main character – Bosworth Van Pycke, aka Buzzy – emerges does the plotline begin to take shape.

Thus, a drunken Buzzy decides to propose to a lady – any lady, providing she’s wealthy – and if he’s turned down he intends to get a job. Buzzy’s father also has marriage in mind. They set out together in a blizzard conditions, each unaware of the other’s intention. From here the story shifts up a gear and the author displays his talents as a humourist.

Mr Van Pycke senior is my favourite character. Most of the funniest moments are because of his comments or actions. Buzzy and the girl he falls for are also amusing.

A good read. ( )
  PhilSyphe | Mar 28, 2015 |
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A shrieking wind, thick with the sleety snow that knows no mercy nor feels remorse, beat vainly and with savage insolence against the staid windows in the lounging room of one of New York's most desirable clubs—one of those characteristic homes for college men who were up for membership on the day they were born, if one may speak so broadly of the virtue that links the early eighteenth-century graduate with his great-grandson of the class of 1908. Not to say, of course, that the eighteenth-century graduate was so carefully preserved from the biting snowstorm as the fellow of to-day, but that he got his learning in the ancient halls that now grind out his descendants by the hundred, one way or another. It is going much too far to assert that every member of this autocratic club had a colonial ancestor in college, but you'd think so if you didn't pin him down to an actual confession to the contrary. It is likely to be the way with college men who do not owe their degrees to certain mushroom institutions in the West, where electricity and mechanics are considered to be quite as necessary to a young man's equipment as the acquaintance, by tradition, with somebody's great-grandaddy, no matter how eminent he may have been in his primogenial day. ( )
  amzmchaichun | Jul 20, 2013 |
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