Keane, like Comyns and many other British women writers of her generation, enjoyed a long but utterly nontraditional literary career. Reasons to re-read Irish writer Molly Keane are never lacking despite the difficulty of getting her books stateside, but the American indie-press revival of Barbara Comyns has, for me, brought Keane vividly back to mind. Charles, the towering, bosomy anti-heroine of Molly Keane's 1981 novel "Good Behaviour" - or it would be, if cries of any sort were considered good behavior in Aroon's world. I have lived for the people dearest to me, and I am at a loss to know why their lives have been at times so perplexingly unhappy." This is the cri de coeur of Aroon St. "All my life so far I have done everything for the best reasons and the most unselfish motives.
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