Word: adame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LAST ADAM-James Gould Cozzens -Ear court, Brace...
Though Author James Gould Cozzens is not yet 30 he has already hung up a U. S. literary record: his last two novels have been Book-of-the-Month Club choices. A little over a year ago it was S. S. San Pedro; this week it is The Last Adam. Not many readers would yet think, of Cozzens in terms of the late great Joseph Conrad, but even fewer will quarrel with the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice. Author Cozzens has a Kiplingesque flair for dramatizing hard facts, a shrewd zest in making a plain tale move...
...tale of a snow-locked glen in the Scottish highlands during a winter of the 1860's. Adam Yestreen, the young minister of the kirk, sets down the eerie happenings of his one and only winter there. A man with simple, homely ways, with speculations as to the strange death of one of his predecessors, with a great kindness for all, and a quaint sort of humor, he falls in love with Miss Julie Logan, that "long stalk of loveliness." Their few meetings have many of the elements of a dream about them, yet she seems very much...
...author's incomparable ability of handling charming and whimsical detail, the characters, especially Adam, the minister, are made both delightful and real. And quite effective is the atmosphere of complete isolation brought about by the elements...
...years (in which he has written 14 plays but no stories) comes a little Scottish fairy tale as neat as a pin, bright as a button, sentimental as Tommy. Barrie lovers will hail it; it should send readers who do not know him scuttling back to his early works. Adam Yestreen, who tells the tale, is pastor of a little hamlet among the hills, still visited (say some) by ghosts of Prince Charlie's men-aye, and women too. Pastor Yestreen, though a simple soul, takes no stock in such things. His parishioners are a shrewd and cautious...