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Plus four remarkably fine first novels: The Bridge, by Manfred Gregor, a brisk, bitter account of Nazi teen-age conscripts thrown into the suicidal campaigns of 1945; Now and at the Hour, by Robert Cormier, the touching story of how death brings dignity to an obscure factory worker; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, an uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains but this time those of a less savory hero...
...HOUR (I 89 pp.)-Robert Cormier-Coward-McCann...
...died at three. As his body shrinks, so does the area that absorbs his attention. The world of town and factory, of family and responsibility, gives way to what goes on in the house, "and then to this room and then this bed and now his body." Author Cormier follows with dogged sympathy each shattering assault of the disease, each new influx of fear. When the end comes, LeBlanc has won his victory through silence. He has not cracked. "And he knew he was safe now. There was nothing left in him to betray him. He could...
...politicians, Widow Smith (after her husband's death in 1940, she won his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives) and Spinster Cormier have much in common. In a state that was long a fortress of rock-ribbed conservatism, both have earned reputations as "liberals," have won broad labor support. Both prefer to ring bells and shake hands on street corners than to get up on the stump. Both are fiercely independent; e.g., Senator Smith denounced Joe McCarthy in his heyday, later bucked the Administration by voting against the confirmation of Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, last time ran with...
Incumbent Smith currently has the edge in the Senate race. But the Republican reign in Maine has been slowly on the wane. And Lucia Cormier is bound to be helped by the fact that the state's Democratic slate is headed by one of Maine's champion vote getters, two-term Congressman Frank Morey Coffin, 40, scion of an old Maine Democratic family (his grandfather, grandmother and mother held political offices in the state), who put off his own ambitions for the Senate to run for the patronage-heavy Governor's seat, now occupied by young...