The Winners
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Cassell & Co edition: 1970; Corgi edition: 1972, Great Britain.
By James Mitchell.
The dinner party was a reunion for the successful ones: Laidlaw, the host, galloping towards his first million; Moulton, the physicist, brilliant and tormented; Arnott, the doctor, highly thought-of, married to a beauty; Fitzgerald, the painter, wary still of a success that might become monotonous... Four men who had attended the same provincial grammar school; four men who had made it. Also present was the voluptuous and ruthless Madge Innes, who had grown up with them and knew them all intimately.....
The evening should have been a glittering social triumph-but the only emotion Laidlaw seemed to experience was hatred. One of his guests was about to be demolished-and Laidlaw was enjoying the prospect....
This is a novel about power: its demands, sacrifices, and rewards. The money, women and prestige that power gives-and takes away; the ambition, the surge to power, first experienced in a childhood of his bitter poverty; power bought and paid for with hate, with lost value, even with love.
Throughout this superbly entertaining novel a brilliant light illuminates the life-and the weaknesses of each of Laidlaw's guests. First one and then another is held up for scrutiny, and the childhood of each is described, when all of them, though drawn from very different backgrounds, studied and played and fought together. This is a tremendously impressive, brilliantly sustained drama in which the future of each of this small band of dutinguished people is put at risk....
If we had to guess based on the cover alone we think it involves a managers of a power company who demands his wife sacrifice her career as a professional arm-wrestler and the rewards it brings her,..