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...GAUNT WOMAN - Edmund GilIlgan-Scribner...
Broad-beamed, baric Edmund Gilligan (White Sails Crowding) knows a lot about sailing vessels, good violent storytelling, and wild Irish prose. In The Gaunt Woman his triple talents are contributed to the war effort with a driving energy that sometimes bruises the story and the prose. But the book as a whole has the glow and momentum of a particularly likable Grade B movie...
Most soldiers, when you question them, say: "There doesn't seem much time to think about Christmas this year, and anyway the setting is all screwy." Which, of course, it is. It is a far cry from carol singers tramping through the snow to the lean, gaunt, green-garbed Americans squirming through drip ping man-high Kunai grass, or sniping Japs from the fronded tops of coconut palms, or flitting like phantoms from tree to tree in the weird firefly-spangled jungle...
Last month gaunt, radical Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons Sir Richard Stafford Cripps K.C., P.C., stepped down from his high office, accepted Prime Minister Churchill's invitation to head the Ministry of Aircraft Production (TIME, Nov. 30). London's editorial columns buzzed with conjecture...
More concerned with letters than with immediate life was William Gaunt with The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy ($3), a witty history of the famous group of British Victorian painters. Virginia Woolf also, in her posthumous Death of the Moth ($3), showed her most delicate skill as a literary escapist. Harry Levin's James Joyce ($1.50), blind though it was to Joyce's grandest and plainest virtues as an artist, furnished plain readers with useful X-rays of much that was most abstruse in Joyce's genius...