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IMAGES OF TRUTH (310 pp.)-Glenway Wescott-Harper...
Like the pre-Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter, Novelist Glenway Wescott is a somewhat melancholy yet tantalizing literary figure. His novels-including The Grandmothers (1927) and The Pilgrim Hawk (1940)-earned him a special reputation as a prose craftsman and subtle prober of the wheels and springs of emotion that turn the clock of character. But he has produced little fiction (only five volumes since 1924) and, though he has started some projects, has published nothing for the past 17 years. Through all that time, a faithful coterie of Wescott admirers has continued to hope not only...
...cousinship with a major American literary pattern-the novel of homecoming, of the haunting tie between small and big town. A few of the other cousins in this huge family, in addition to Marquand's book: Frank Norris' Mc-Teague, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, Thomas Wolfe's You Can't go Home Again, and, more recently, John Brooks's A Pride of Lions. Perhaps no other literature is filled with so many revisited home towns as the American, and it may be because the emotional distance...
...GREAT MODERN SHORT NOVELS (448 pp.)-James Joyce, Herman Melville, Katherine Anne Porter, Nikolai Gogol, Glenway Wescott, William Faulkner-Dell (paperback...
Today, 78-year-old Colette's innumerable admirers (most of whom would agree with Glenway Wescott that she is "the greatest living French fiction writer") wonder how on earth their "national great lady" ever bowed to such servitude. Colette herself, now a distinguished member of the French Academy, wonders too. True, she says, Willy actually kepi her under lock & key. But why did she not escape by the window? Was it because he always guessed so cunningly when she was on the verge of flight-and gave her a raise in salary? Or was it, rather, that under Willy...