Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DEAD SEAGULL (142 pp.)-George Barker-Farrar, Sfraus & Young...
...George Barker's novel is the story of a sick young dog who would rather sniff in his misery than get well. As such, it is a reekingly unpleasant book; when the author waxes lyrical and theological about his nasty little mess, it becomes a conceited one. Nevertheless, The Dead Seagull has a clinical interest of its own as a crude dissection of evil...
...Convictions. Barker's hero, who is nameless, is a young writer of 19 who has just been married to a girl three years older. His senses still swim in an adolescent daydream of genius. When he looks out of a window, he can envision a little girl being torn to pieces by archangels, but he can neither face the plain reality of his wife's pregnancy, nor meet a man's emotional and spiritual responsibilities in his marriage...
Unseeing Search. A pretty, 17-year-old Maryland high-school girl named Carolyn Jane Barker was sitting in the car with her boy friend, 19-year-old Lawrence Gilbert. The pair-interrupted just as the boy had presented an engagement ring-were too startled to utter a sound. Irwin yanked out his pistol. "Drive me to Virginia," he said, dramatically, "the FBI is after...
...morning last week. As his staffers drifted in, he called them into his office to break the surprising news he had heard only the afternoon before. Then he sat down and wrote the news for Page One, took the story to the composing room himself. Composing Room Superintendent Earl Barker read it and gasped: the Star-Times had been sold to the rival Post-Dispatch (circ. 290,052), would publish no more after that afternoon's press...