Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Religious Novels. Nineteen forty-three was also a year in which religious novels crept into the top brackets of fast-selling fiction. Lloyd Douglas' The Robe, published the year before, was the No. 1 U.S. fiction best-seller for eleven months, was then nosed out by John P. Marquand's So Little Time (sales of The Robe to date: 680,000 copies). Sholem Asch's The Apostle is now No. 4 bestseller...
Most striking example of the shortcomings of U.S. fiction in 1943 was Jesse Stuart's Taps for Private Tussie ($2.75), in which a story of a Kentucky mountain child's uncanny poetic observation was curdled by a burlesque-show farce of life among his elders. The brilliant portraits of anti-Soviet Author Mark Aldanov's Russian novel, The Fifth Seal ($3), were blurred in the diffuse and incoherent story...
...after his marriage to 33-year-old radio operator Joan Montgomery; in Toronto. In his youth he toughened his body on the woodland trails of his native New Brunswick, whose forests and streams he exalted in poetry. A World War I veteran, he left behind 67 volumes of verse, fiction, biography, history, including such prose works as The Kindred of the Wild, The Feet of the Furtive, Wisdom of the Wilderness...
...intimation that her characters are important people whose lives, even if they do not value them themselves, are of human significance. Readers may also feel that in emphasizing the faded Main Street malice of parts of Hackettston, Mrs. Janeway is buying some of the Brazilian bonds of contemporary fiction...
...best-seller on U.S. fiction lists last week was a religious book, The Apostle-Sholem Asch's dramatic portrayal of the life of one of the greatest Christian leaders, Paul of Tarsus...