Only Fade Away

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Only Fade Away

Author	Bruce Marshall
Country	Scotland
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publication date	1954
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	303
ISBN	N/A
Preceded by	The Fair Bride (1953)
Followed by	Girl in May (1956)

Only Fade Away is a 1954 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.

Plot summary

A change of pace for Marshall, this book is only peripherally concerned with matters of faith and religion. Strang Methuen is an old soldier, a stiff-necked Scot who serves in the British Army in two world wars. Methuen is able to show more courage in the face of enemy fire than when dealing with friends and family—those he loves and hates.

Methuen has been bullied since his school days by Hermiston. For nearly 40 years, every time he thinks he has escaped or defeated the bully, a quirk of fate makes Methuen the goat again.

The very qualities that keep him from winning, integrity and personal honor, also make him a sympathetic and interesting character.

A revelation about his beloved daughter almost crushes Methuen, but he recovers. The story ends when Methuen, now a Brigadier General fighting in World War II Italy, uses his experience and wiles to perform a vital military maneuver, preventing a major defeat. Unfortunately Hermiston, in an attempt to finally put things right, makes a confession which puts Methuen's achievement in a bad light. He is demoted and leaves the service in disgrace.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ "Mixed Fiction". Time magazine. December 27, 1954. Retrieved May 8, 2009. Only Fade Away book review
↑ Marshall, B: Only Fade Away The Riverside Press Cambridge 1954.

v t e Works by Bruce Marshall

Novels	A Thief in the Night (ca 1918) This Sorry Scheme (1924) The Stooping Venus (1926) Teacup Terrace (1926) And There Were Giants (1927) The Other Mary (1927) High Brows (1929) The Little Friend (1929) The Rough House, a possibility (1930) Children of This Earth (1930) Father Malachy's Miracle (1931) Prayer for the Living (1934) The Uncertain Glory (1935) Canon to the Right of Them (1936) Luckypenny (1937) Delilah Upside Down, a Tract, with a Thrill (1941) Yellow Tapers for Paris (1943) The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith (1944) George Brown's Schooldays (1946) Vespers in Vienna (1947) To Every Man a Penny (1949) The Fair Bride (1953) Only Fade Away (1954) Girl in May (1956) The Accounting (1958) A Thread of Scarlet (1959) The Divided Lady (1960) A Girl from Lübeck (1962) The Month of the Falling Leaves (1963) Father Hilary's Holiday (1965) The Bishop (1970) The Black Oxen (1972) Urban the Ninth (1973) Operation Iscariot (1974) Marx the First (1975) Peter the Second (1976) The Yellow Streak (1977) Prayer for a Concubine (1978) Flutter in the Dovecote (1986) A Foot in the Grave (1987) An Account of Capers (1988)

Non-fiction	The White Rabbit (1953) Thoughts of My Cats (1954)

Other	Contribution to A Time to Laugh (1949) "The Curé of Ars," chapter in Saints for Now (1952) Introduction to Rue Notre Dame (1953) Foreword to Top Secret Mission (1955)

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