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...long practice in commercial writing, displaying at every critical point the artistic acumen of a flashy sophomore. Novelist Bromfield is famed for his "characters"; Night in Bombay'?, are so weakly conceived that they not only lack inner consistency but sometimes waver in their physique (e.g., sinister Mr. Botlivala's hands are "very long and thin and very collapsible" on page 74, "plump little hands" on page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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