People Will Always Be Kind

by Wilfrid Sheed

People Will Always Be Wilfrid People Will Always Be Farrar Straus FIRST First Edition, 2nd Printing. Price-clipped. Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 1973. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with red top stain, spine lean, and spotting on page ends. Dust jacket is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.Seller 362154 Literature We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Sheed was born in London to Francis "Frank" Sheed and Mary "Maisie" Ward, prominent Roman Catholic publishers (Sheed & Ward) in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-20th century. Wilfrid Sheed spent his childhood in both England and the United States before attending Downside School and Lincoln College, Oxford where he earned BA (1954) and MA (1957) degrees.

Reviews

[Paul Gaya Ochieng Simeon Juma · Rating 2 out of 5]

People Will always be kind by Wilfrid Sheed is a novel about politics. Unfortunately, the story is not very intriguing. Brian Casey, suffers from polio but learns to live with it. He goes ahead to become a Senator and later run for president. It is claimed to be the best novel of the year. Extremely moving, deeply felt and terrific. I must say that I disagree with those sentiments completely. It didn't appeal to me at all.

[Steve Hauptman · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this many years ago (on the strength of a NYT Book Review rave) and remembered that I liked Sheed's voice, and so thought to give it another try. More disappointing this time. The voice that once sounded fresh and straightforward now struck me as overly clever, and in the end I came away without a strong picture of or strong feelings (except maybe annoyance) about Brian Casey and Sam Perkins. Sheed has a knowing way of describing political campaigns, and that intrigued me, but in the end I felt like a kid at a grownups party, out of place and not understanding most of the jokes.