Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Random House; $3.95) bears the pseudonym Middleton Kiefer on the front, on the back helpfully lifts the disguise: the author is a committee, Harry Middleton and Warren Kiefer, onetime P.R. men for the drug firm Chas. Pfizer & Co. Writing at double strength, they achieve one of the most moving scenes of nobility in defeat since The Song of Roland. Pressagent Joe Logan has corrupted a war hero and seduced his fiancee while boosting a dangerous new tranquilizer; he is about to ditch his boss as a Senate committee begins to ask unpleasant questions. But the sight of his employer cruelly...
...INSIDER (Holt; $3.95), by James Kelly, a vice president of Ellington & Co., stands out amid other ad fiction like a short man in a roomful of midgets. The story of an evilly empty man's decline, fall and ironic resurrection is told thoughtfully, and is worth reading. The author's language is sometimes pretentious, but it is several grades better than that of the other ad fictioneers, who evidently do not have enough word power left over after churning out all those...
...exams is a technicality they fail to grasp. He soon finds himself writing letters for the adults and giving lessons to the children. Everyone takes for granted that his city ways of love-making must be the epitome of charm. As Jean-Marie is actually a virgin, much of Author Beti's humor is spent on his hero's efforts to keep out of one bed by falling between two. In the end it is the jungle that educates Jean-Marie and sends him back, a more sophisticated type, to civilization...
...tribesman sadly predicted that Jean-Marie would live some day like white men, drink water from a tap, not from the spring, and even use a tablecloth at dinner. Author Beti, himself a native of the Cameroons, describes the tribal way of life with such affection and good humor that even the hardened Western reader will long to swap his faucets and tablecloths for the refreshing springs and loincloths of the Cameroonian sticks...
...great novel that won its author the Nobel Prize. Both an indictment of Communist inhumanity and a moving hymn to the Russian people's humanity...