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Action for Slander
In this courtroom drama a major in the British Army charges a fellow officer with slander after he accuses the former of cheating in a high-stakes poker game during a weekend shooting party. All of the sins of the British upper class--lying, cheating, adultery, avarice, gambling, drinking--are on display.
- GenresFiction
302 pages, Hardcover
Published October 20, 1975
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About the author
Mary Borden
41 books10 followersMary Borden (1886–1968) was an early 20th-century, Anglo-American novelist.
Mary Borden was born into a wealthy Chicago family. She attended Vassar College, graduating with a B.A. in 1907. In 1908 she married George Douglas Turner, with whom she had three daughters; Joyce (born 1909), Comfort (born 1910) and Mary (born 1914). She was living in England in 1914 at the outbreak of the war and used her own money to equip and staff a field hospital close to the Front in which she herself served as a nurse from 1915 until the end of the war. It was there she met Brigadier General Edward Louis Spears, who became her second husband, in 1918, following the dissolution of her first marriage. Despite her considerable social commitments as the wife of a prominent diplomat, she continued a successful career as a writer. During her war-time experience she wrote poetry such as 'The Song of the Mud' (1917). Notably, her work includes a striking set of sketches and short stories, The Forbidden Zone (1929), which was published in the same year as A Farewell to Arms, Good-Bye to All That and All Quiet on the Western Front. Even in this context, contemporary readers were disturbed at the graphic, sometimes hallucinatory, quality of this work coming from a woman's pen.
Her 1937 novel Action for Slander was adapted into a film the same year.
(from Wikipedia)
Mary Borden was born into a wealthy Chicago family. She attended Vassar College, graduating with a B.A. in 1907. In 1908 she married George Douglas Turner, with whom she had three daughters; Joyce (born 1909), Comfort (born 1910) and Mary (born 1914). She was living in England in 1914 at the outbreak of the war and used her own money to equip and staff a field hospital close to the Front in which she herself served as a nurse from 1915 until the end of the war. It was there she met Brigadier General Edward Louis Spears, who became her second husband, in 1918, following the dissolution of her first marriage. Despite her considerable social commitments as the wife of a prominent diplomat, she continued a successful career as a writer. During her war-time experience she wrote poetry such as 'The Song of the Mud' (1917). Notably, her work includes a striking set of sketches and short stories, The Forbidden Zone (1929), which was published in the same year as A Farewell to Arms, Good-Bye to All That and All Quiet on the Western Front. Even in this context, contemporary readers were disturbed at the graphic, sometimes hallucinatory, quality of this work coming from a woman's pen.
Her 1937 novel Action for Slander was adapted into a film the same year.
(from Wikipedia)
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August 12, 2016
I just couldn't wrap my head around these people getting all worked up because Guy A accused Guy B of cheating during a game of poker, especially when the real issue - that nobody would talk about - was that Guy B was sleeping with Guy A's wife. So let's sweep all the adultery under the table and drag everyone into court for a he-said, he-said argument over whether or not someone had a 3 of diamonds in their hand. Seriously? And then cheating B's holier-than-thou, long-suffering wife dashes back from her self-imposed exile in New Zealand to stand by her man? Gag me. Way too much "regimental honour" b.s. going on here. Nice theatrical courtroom flourish at the end, though.
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