I find it disturbing too. The girl was 13. Not acceptable in my book whether it was consensual as he claimed or not, as she did. I don't get the waves of sympathy towards Polanski.
I'm not convinced Mayne would be particularly publishable nowadays anyway, though - his later books lacked something
Earthfasts
, for example, had - and I suspect they would be less likely to appeal to t' young of today...
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Date: 2009-09-28 09:42 pm (UTC)I'm not convinced Mayne would be particularly publishable nowadays anyway, though - his later books lacked something