Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revives a past entanglement with Ransome, simultaneously sets a determined cap for the surgeon. They are all treading on each other's erotic heels in this fashion when the rains come-this time with catastrophic force, accompanied by an earthquake which for ten days isolates the community. And Author Bromfield, having maneuvered his characters into one of those "marooned-in-the-midst-of-civilization" crises so tempting to novelists lately, sets to work to see how much in the way of naked emotions he can get out of the situation...
...separate thoughts, reactions and activities traced conscientiously through all the tangle of events. This leads to a great deal of harking-back at the beginning of the book, and to a scattering of dramatic effect thereafter, so that even the impact of the earthquake itself is dissipated as the author patiently herds his characters one by one through the disaster. In the end, Author Bromfield metes out justice with the precise hand of a Sunday School superintendent distributing awards and censure. Only the faithful nurse, Miss MacDaid. is left holding...
...Author. Most readers were not surprised that Louis Bromfield had once again written a long, thin book-which has nothing in common with E. M. Forster's great Passage to India except locale-but they were surprised to find it brown-skinned. On the publication of his last novel, The Farm (1933), Ohio-born Author Bromfield, long a Senlis (near Paris) expatriate, firmly announced his determination to return to the U. S., henceforth to devote himself to the American scene. His switch was prompted by a spur-of-the-moment decision to see India first; captivated, he made three...
...forgotten background, Texas-born U. S. Marine Major John W. Thomason Jr. (Fix Bayonets!, Jeb Stuart), grandson of Longstreet's Chief of Staff, spins the yarn of Gone to Texas, a pleasant, fast-moving romance about an unpleasant, fast-moving period of U. S. history. Readers will like Author Thomason's numerous pen & ink illustrations; those who liked Gone With The Wind should like the story as well...
...dramatization of the recent (1919-35) changes in Navajo Indian life. The Enemy Gods follows the general theme of Author La Farge's previous Indian fiction: the poor results of trying to adapt Indians to white wavs. The variation this time is a more ambitious social and political background. On the literary side the novel's chief failings appear at those points where the anthropologist, the sociologist and the novelist could not get together...