Word: ariss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shattered Glass, by Jean Ariss. A flawed but beautifully rendered novel of love between two matrimonial losers who find the courage to love and lose again...
...SHATTERED GLASS (337 pp.)-Jean Ariss-Knopf...
This second novel by Author Jean (The Quick Years) Ariss, 47, a Californian with an artist-husband and five children, is flawed by her refusal to give proper names to her leading characters. As in a morality play, they are labeled the man, the woman, the father. Another seeming handicap is that the man proves to be a confirmed alcoholic who re-enacts the Lost Weekend gamut from DTs to strait jackets to the shameless cadging of money and sympathy...