There Was a Time

By Taylor Caldwell

Book Overview

Frank Clair, a perceptive young artist is torn between the prostitute who has unselfishly taken care of him and the wealthy and passionate woman able to satisfy his desires for fame and money This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006AR50M
• Release Date: January 1947
• Publisher: Scribner
• Length: 471 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A moving introduction to Taylor Caldwell.

"There was a Time" is the story of Frank Clair, a young English writer and immigrant to the United States. Like Caldwell's other characters, Frank suffers from a fatal flaw: his once passionate artist's nature has been warped by his miserly parents until he is a bitter shell of a man whose only concern is money. He compromises his writing to achieve his obsession with wealth. As always, Caldwell characters are multifaceted, tormented people whose thoughts and actions are so well described that the reader sympathizes with their plight. Caldwell's lyrical prose makes this especially good reading for those disgusted with simplistic, poor writing. While "There was a Time" is not Caldwell's best work (to me, the ending was abrupt, and did little justice to the complexity of the work), it is a fine introduction to this prolific author and a must for her continuing devotees.