Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this cosmic drama scarcely anything was reflected in the year's books. There was almost no fiction of consequence. There was a scatterfire of biography (none of it first-rate), a broadside of correspondents' books (all dating rapidly), some history of no particular moment, no outstanding books of criticism, little poetry...
Meanwhile some Los Angeles tenants with apartments to sublet sought bribes more greedily than the fattest landlord of fiction-one asked and got a $750 bonus for subletting a $100 apartment for six months...
DAISY KENYON-Elizabeth Janeway -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). The men & women of today's glossy fiction lead jumpy, exciting lives. They carry out hush-hush Government missions and make big money as writers and artists. They drink lots of highballs, chain-smoke, worry about themselves and talk to each other in subtle banalities to cover their emotional high tension. They love with anxious violence-usually two people at the same time, until the last chapter. And mostly they are terribly good, terribly sensitive but terribly confused...
...When Prater Violet appeared last summer in the glossy pages of Harper's Bazaar, it caused a mild critical flurry. Now published in book form, Prater Violet is likely to draw as much critical attention as any other novel of the season. Even in a period of thriving fiction, Prater Violet would rate respect: with the Anglo-American novel at its lowest ebb in years, Prater Violet looks like a fresh, firm peach in a dish of waxed fruits...
...Konstantine Simonov. A crack Soviet war correspondent who generally turned up in the thickest fighting from Odessa to Leningrad, Reporter Simonov is also a successful playwright, poet, short-story writer, novelist. Days and Nights, his novel of the 1942 defense of Stalingrad, is more effective than most contemporary Soviet fiction because the Communist drum-beating is more muffled...