[Puttering About in a Small Land]
Year:
1985
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Gollancz
Year of publication:
2014
Pages:
320
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
Violent content:
Vulgar or obscene language:
Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Written in 1957, it was published posthumously in 1985. This novel does not belong to the science fiction genre.
The narrative begins in 1944, when Virginia and Roger meet in Washington and marry after Roger divorces his first wife and abandons his daughter. The couple moves to Los Angeles, where Roger works in a munitions factory. Although he earns a great deal of money, he always spends even more. Therefore, he opens a television store. They have an asthmatic son and enroll him in an expensive private school. There Roger meets the mother of another student and begins an intimate relationship with her. The novel concludes with the flight of the womanizing Roger.
The work includes numerous autobiographical elements.
Author: Manuel Martínez, Spain
Update on: May 2026