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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...KENWORTHYS-Margaret Wilson -Harper ($2.00). The lives of some commonfolk are here dammed up into tragedy by the rather rickety proposition that it is dishonorable for a man to exert any extra-legal effort to recover, from his rich, reprehensible, divorced wife, the custody of their unhappy child. Author Wilson* was awarded the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the simplicity and directness of The Able McLaughlins. Simple in diction is The Kenworthys and fairly direct in presentation. But only a patient reader will penetrate the morasses of reiterative dialog, will take the scanted, arbitrary motives on faith, will 'ignore loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Woman's Byron | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

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