Word: cobweb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Country Girl (with William Holden and Bing Crosby), Rear Window (with James Stewart), Bridges at Toko-Ri (with Holden). She is now working on Green Fire (with Stewart Granger) for MGM; this summer she returns to Paramount for Catch a Thief (with Cary Grant), follows that with The Cobweb...
...COBWEB (369 pp.)-William Gibson-Knopf...
...publishers of The Cobweb have sent it into the world with a stout advertising and promotion budget and the advance assurance to bookdealers that it is "an absorbing, down-to-earth novel about real people responding to the real stuff of everyday human experience." The book may sell well, at that. A first novel by Massachusetts' William Gibson, it sticks to the oldest rule in soap opera: it gets its characters in trouble and keeps them there...
...good deal of the trouble in The Cobweb is readymade, since the setting is a Midwest psychiatric sanitarium called the Castle House Clinic for Nervous Disorders. But Head Psychoanalyst Stewart McIver, his wife and his staff spin some extra strands of personal disaster that make the patients seem sane and well adjusted...
Though it sometimes slows to a lecture-room pace, The Cobweb shows a nice ear for the spoken word and a good eye for the physical props of upper-middle-class life. Even its mixed-up characters might be fun to be with, if each did not so persistently regard his own navel as the hub of the universe...