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...Myron Brinig - Farrar & Rinehart {$3). Minneapolis-born Author Brinig has published 14 novels in the past 15 years (including Singermann, The Sisters, May Flavin). His new novel sug gests that he may be suffering from over production. You and I's 474 pages follow New Mexico-born Claire and Eric from childhood to marriage, taking in half the cities of Europe...
...Martin Flavin, for his American novel Journey in the Dark...
...projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story of a horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin Flavin's Harper ($10,000) prize novel, Journey in the Dark ($2.75), described the degrees by which social success disillusioned a social climber. William Saroyan's The Human Comedy ($2.75), lit with occasional passages of warm humor, became insipid with its determined intellectual baby talk...
...Transit U. S. A. (Stokes; $2.50) Author W. L. River leads simple-minded Curly Martin from California through Arizona deserts, a Missouri road gang, Chicago's skid road, Ohio industrial warfare to Manhattan in a vain search for the capitalist who unwittingly ruined Curly 's business. Martin Flavin's Mr. Littlejohn (Harper; $2.50) is a simple-minded capitalist who drifts from Manhattan to California in search of Truth. Like Curly Martin's his simpleness is more absurd than lovable, his roadside adventures magnificently uninspired...
...that suicide Author Brinig (The Sisters, May Flavin) found the subject for Anne Minion's Life readymade. But he copied only part of the story-the physical details of how Anne Minton commits suicide. For his main story he leaves tormented Anne teetering on the ledge while he draws several characters from the mob below. Anne's suicide is pictured as less a tragedy than a blessing. Because of her example the wife of an unemployed worker cancels her trip to an abortionist (her husband has found a job when she gets home). A philandering playboy makes amends...