finds himself abandoned and wondering whether anything he knew about the situation was true. The book received de Lima's best reviews. Edmund Fuller proclaimed her "one of the most deft, accomplished stylists among our younger writers," and Granville Hicks wrote that she had "a delicate style that matches her insights." In his Independent obituary, Christopher Hawtree called in a "small masterpiece": "the 150 pages take in all manner of manipulation, evil, passion and illicit congress: it could surely have been the basis for one of the era's great movies...." Her fifth novel, Oriane (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968) received few reviews and those were less than enthusiastic. The reception so disappointed de Lima that she gave up writing completely. "It broke her heart," said Greene. She died of a stroke in Nyack, New York, on 19 September 1999. Her daughter, Alison de Lima Greene, is a curator at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and has published a number of works on modern art. Bibliography Novels: The Captain's Beach (1950) The Swift Cloud (1952) (published in paperback as A Mask of Guilt) Carnival by the Sea (1954) Praise a Fine Day (1959) Oriane (1968) References External links Review of "Praise a Fine Day" at The Neglected Books Page, retrieved 2010-07-24 1921 births 1999 deaths 20th-century American novelists Writers from New York City Barnard College alumni Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni American women novelists 20th-century American women writers Novelists from New York (state) American expatriates in Mexico