Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AMERICAN DREAM GIRL (302 pp.) -James J. Farrell-Vanguard...
...time brooding over a weighty question: What's wrong with American women? Like most, he has arrived at a lot of different answers. His favorite seems to be one given by a locked-up lunatic who narrates one of the 21 stories in Farrell's An American Dream Girl...
...title story, Farrell comes to the heart of his theme: the American Dream...
After she went to her berth, "I sat drinking my milk and thinking about tier," writes Author Farrell. Readers will wish that he had thought longer, or that a sharper writer had done his writing for him. For while Dream Girl is built around a pretentious theme, Author Farrell can muster only nine undercooked stories to support it. His more familiar squalor tales and mass-and-class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight...
Blandings' Way, by Eric Hodgins. The faintly sad story of what happened to Mr. Blandings when he moved into his dream house and became a citizen of suburbia (TIME...