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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follow-the-hero level, the action of The Recognitions may seem simple. Wyatt Gwyon is the shy son of a New England preacher. His mother has died during a trip to Spain, and he is brought up under the gimlet eye and Puritan maxims of a crabby maiden aunt. In Paris, he holes up in a studio and paints, but he gets panned by the critics. Wyatt is soon back in a Greenwich Village flat with a draftsman's job and a possessive wife just out of analysis. He sheds his wife, and sells himself into esthetic and moral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Counterfeiters | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...Gwyon, Wyatt's father, finds gin more consoling than the Protestantism he preaches. When he is not hitting the bottle, he soaks up the rites of non-Christian faiths. One Christmas he comes unhinged, proclaims the gospel of Mithra from the pulpit after sacrificing a black bull. His horrified congregation packs him off to a sanitarium calted Happymount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Counterfeiters | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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