This Animal Is Mischievous is a 1965 novel by David Benedictus. It is a satire about a British brother and sister who become involved in a battle between black activists and a fascist group. According to Time, the author's "discursive, Edwardian elegance of style is amusingly suited to satirizing upper-class pretentiousness, but his Negro characters are simply stereotypes and his twittering wittiness collapses at last into sentimentality."[1]
(publ. Anthony Blond)
The novel was also reviewed in the Los Angeles Times,[2] Commonweal, The Spectator and other publications.
References
edit- ^ "Books: Short Notices". Time. 15 April 1966. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008.
- ^ Driscoll, Majorie (22 May 1966). "A Different View of Extremism". p. C11. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012.(subscription required)