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Word: grubbe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (273 pp.]-Davis Grubb-Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer in Cresap's Landing | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...Pearl Harper. And they have reason: their bank-robbing father is in Moundsville Prison waiting to be hanged. Before The Night of the Hunter has gone many pages, Ben Harper lives out the doggerel and swings for his crimes. The secret and, eventually, the terror around which Author Grubb's skin-prickling first novel unfolds is: What did Ben Harper do with the $10,000 in crisp, green 100s that he killed two bank clerks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Killer in Cresap's Landing | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...literary age often characterized by intentional obscurity and rampant symbolism, it is interesting to find a first-class novel which affects neither. The Night of the Hunter, Davis Grubb's first attempt at novel writing is mainly a narrative--grim, sometimes sordid, but at the same time warm and deceptively optimistic. And the author surprises readers hardened to literary cynicism with the rarity of a happy ending...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Night of the Hunter | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

Terror, sensual love, and greed are the themes of the Night of the Hunter. But Grubb does not comment on them through his characters, they are merely components for good story-telling. Setting his characters in the Ohio River valley of West Virginia, he makes the great Ohio both a backdrop, and a kindly provider for the two helpless, terrified children that are his subjects...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Night of the Hunter | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

...even with the stigma of a first novel, The Night of the Hunter cannot fail to be impressive. There is the local color of a Caldwell short story, and the sustained narrative of Galsworthy, both combined with the new, effective touch of Davis Grubb...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Night of the Hunter | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

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