The Death of Ruth
Pan Books, $2.95 pb, 128pp
Fiction
The Death of Ruth by Elizabeth Kata
by Margaret Smith •
Her previous work, A Patch of Blue, became a Hollywood film with Sidney Poitier, and another, Child of the Holocaust, was recently serialized by the ABC. Neither was short on social awareness, which makes her latest novel all the more inexplicable. All the characters of The Death of Ruth are stereotypical. The twists and nuances come in the plot, not in the characterization.
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The Death of Ruth
by Elizabeth Kata
Pan Books, $2.95 pb, 128pp
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