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...LOVE-Ben Hecht-Covici, Friede ($2.50). In this book Ben Hecht has created a character who may well cause many a reader to fling the book from him in too precipitate disgust. Coming to know people is not always a pleasant experience and Author Hecht's creature seems at first a repulsive caricature. But the caricature grows into a portrait, the creature into a personality who is as interesting as he is unpleasant. Many an author would give his eyeteeth to be able to approximate the Hechticvitality. Jo Boshere (real name: Abe Nussbaum) made a fortune on the stock...
ABOUT THE MURDER OF GERALDINE FOSTER-Anthony Abbot-Covici, Friede...
OSCAR WILDE: His LIFE AND CONFESSIONS-Frank Harris-Covici, Friede- Published July...
...FAMILY-Frangois Mauriac- translated by Lewis Galantiere-Covici-Friede ($2). Not all French novelists write of the lighter side of love. Author Mauriac, serious though not quite gloomy, here chronicles with particularizing finger the ill fortunes of love in a French family of the Gironde (southwestern department of France). The book is really two novels whose characters are related. First part: Jean Pelouéyre, repulsive but sensitive only son of a rich hypochondriac, has a marriage arranged for him by his father and the priest. The bride is a lovely, sturdy peasant who does not dream of disobeying...
FLOOD - Robert Neumann - Covici, Friede...