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Word: corvey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Novelist John Braine dealt with the reek of ill-gained success as experienced by a bounder inwardly appalled by his own amorality. In his second novel, Braine deals with the opposite, savors the sour scent of failure as lived by a welfare-state weakling. When the book opens, Dick Corvey, the novel's nonhero, is in a tuberculosis hospital. Behind him lie an army stretch marked by cowardice and a childhood marred by rich but weird imagination. He had peopled a sinister world in which the evil Vodi, led by a heartless witch, controlled human destinies; as an adult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Room at the Bottom | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

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