Word: ennui
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism. The Coward, well-worn in plot and people, is psychologically good & scary; The Defective is rather sketched than brought off. The Bad Girl describes provincial ennui and sexual despair with a good deal of intensity. The Drunkard, the best thing in the book, is a scalding and ghastly story of speak-easy newswriters, a maladjusted comedian. If uneven Author Ryan ever tightens the whole of his talent to that pitch, he will have justified his bold ambitions...