Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Advertising is carried out at minimal cost on a person-to-person level. In the belief that publishing is in "esence a cooperative adventure between author and reader, with the publisher as middle man," Bledsoe publicizes his books through a direct mail campaign...
...book becomes almost worth reading when, in one incredible passage that may well benumb the entire Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, the author has a tribune tongue-lash the Senate: "You, Romans, friends and countrymen, have heard me before. I come not to honor Rome but to bury her." Author Caldwell ends her story as Lucanus meets Christ's mother, in a din of paraphrased Hail Marys and purple Passion ("She stood against the background of the hot and brazen mounts, and it seemed to him that she had grown very tall, and that she was clothed in pure light...
Expectation of Good. Sigh for a Strange Land is an intermittently successful attempt to share imaginatively what its British author. Monica Stirling, has not suffered-the life of a refugee. Resi. a confused and attractive 16-year-old, flees a country very like Hungary. With her go her schnapps-tippling, aristocratic Aunt Natasha and Natasha's long-ago lover Boris, a trainer of circus horses. The dance of liberty soon slows to the shuffle of Red Cross soup queues, even though the gallant trio refuses to indulge in the occupational pastime of unhappy refugees-back-biting the hand that...
...Author Grossman is managing editor of East Europe, a serious magazine published by the Free Europe Committee, but in this first novel he is also a cynical commentator on the U.S. scene. He is obviously convinced that there is something hollow at the core of American life. Willard-Hugo can be devastating as he describes a suburban party given by Cairo Joy's married sister. He raises hob with giveaway shows, the pornographic-picture trade along Times Square, the shallow mind of little Miss Average whose only coup in life is the landing of a husband...
...avoids the responsibility that love requires by taking refuge in jealousy and smashing the affair. In the end he tries to murder the man with whom he suspects Stephanie of cheating, but it is an innocent boy who becomes the victim of his senseless attack. The trouble is that Author Grossman's hero is more ridiculous than his victims, and the social vices he flays seem almost attractive compared to the empty reaches of his own sick soul. But Grossman, in spite of long stretches of overwriting and more than a trace of downright vulgarity, clearly has talent...