Word: book-of-the-month
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...people living in a different civilization on the opposite side of the world, the events of those seven years seemed strange and complicated. Thunder out of China, Book-of-the-Month for November, makes them comprehensible to Americans...
...discovery of British Author T. H. White, author of three Arthurian-legend fantasies: The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood, The Ill-Made Knight. He has put them to good use in a book that is freakish fantasy from start to finish. Supposedly a children's book, it will entertain most adults (it is the Book-of-the-Month Club choice for October...
...Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June was The Hucksters, Frederic Wakeman's sharp, satirical novel about...
Miss Leckton dominates The Sudden Guest, the Book-of-the-Month Club's dual selection for September (with Animal Farm-TIME, Feb. 4). Described by the publishers as a novel, The Sudden Guest is in fact little more than an elaborately contrived but not penetrating character study, with the East Coast hurricanes of 1938 and 1944 as background. The hurricanes blow an assortment of people into Miss Leckton's little world of servants, silverware and unearned income. She resents the intrusion, especially if the intruders happen to be Jews...
Bjartur of Summerhouses is the central figure in Independent People. This grim, graphic novel of life on the Icelandic uplands, circa 1900-1920, is the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for August and, according to the publisher, an "epic in the grand tradition of great fiction." It may be less expansively described as a half-sympathetic, half-scornful portrait of the Icelandic peasant mind, done with broad "epic" touches and special political intent. For Author Halldór Laxness uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text...