Too Late the Phalarope Too Late the Phalarope Too Late the Phalarope is the second novel of Alan Paton, the South African author who is best known for writing "Cry, the Beloved Country". It was published in 1953, and was the last novel he published before "Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful" in 1981. The summary on the dust jacket of the first UK edition reads, in part; 'The setting is again South Africa, but the tragedy this time is of a white man who, for complicated reasons, some of them not unconnected with his childhood and training, succumbs to the very temptations he
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995 film) become so invested in the unleashing of violent emotion and the escalation of hostility, that expressions of restraint, reconciliation and forgiveness can easily be read as corny cop-outs. "Cry, the Beloved Country" is not corny, and it doesn't cop out." Conversely, Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" had a less positive view of the film, giving it only two and half out of four stars, and commenting, "The film has genuine qualities. Its photography and tone evoke a South Africa that is indeed beloved by its inhabitants ('If the climate and the landscape were not so beautiful, we would have