Word: anding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE MIDDLE AGE OF MRS. ELIOT, by Angus Wilson. The freshly widowed heroine tries to find a career and a woman's card of identity; all she seems to turn up is welfare-state boredom and ineffectually Angry Young Men, many of whom are not men at all. Author...
TIME WALKED, by Vera Panovo. Russian Author Panova, writing with unostentatious excellence, has both the compassion and the mother wit to describe the world of a six-year-old-and to recall an existence that most grownups have forgotten.
A span of 350 years is a lot to pack into a novel. Yugoslavian Author Andric does it in a splendidly evocative story of his home town, for centuries a meeting place of many races and a target for a variety of conquerors. There is no plot except the rhythm...
JAMES JOYCE, by Richard Ellmann. A difficult man and difficult writer, along with his companions, family and endless personal and artistic crises, is documented with scrupulous care in the year's best literary biography.
KENNETH GRAHAME, by Peter Green. A fascinating biography of the chronically ill and neurotic secretary of the Bank of England whose weekend writing produced at least one children's classic. The Wind in the Willows.