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...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (791 pp.) -Carson McCullers-Houghton Mifilin...
...Carson McCullers published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, at 23, and it was an immediate success. Novelist McCullers herself made good copy. She was a round-faced Georgia girl with bangs, who worked at her writing between 4 and 8 a.m., before going off to a daytime clerical job (she had lost one job when caught reading Proust). On top of that, the critics decided that her book, a somber, wide-eyed look at small-town Southern life, was really first-rate...
...Carson McCullers was no flash in the pan. A year later, in. 1941, came another novel, Reflections in a Golden Eye. It was an exercise in the gothic tale, Southern style, and was crammed with pathology, but the pathology was handled with restraint and taste. In 1946 she published her third novel, The Member of the Wedding, a winsome remembrance of adolescence that later became a hit Broadway show...
...writing is part of the American tradition of mooning, the tradition represented by Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill sometimes, and, at his rare best, William Saroyan. She can be soft and soupy, but at top form, as in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Carson McCullers has sharp sight, warm tenderness...
...Twas Brillig (Mindy Carson; Victor). Lewis Carroll's genuine jabberwocky tricked up to sound like such moderns as Mairzy Doats and the Hut Sut Song...