Word: halper
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...authors. Writers like Dos Passes, Hemingway, Faulkner, are for the first time being accepted seriously in Europe as well as in America. It was Sinclair Lewis," winning the Nobel prize that gave Europe its first appreciation of the fact that Americans had something to say. Men like William March, Halper, Thomas Wolf, Claire Spencer, the author of an astounding novel, "Gallows Orchard," and a dozen others are making a literary future for America. The years of experimenting with form are almost at an end, classicism is returning, and simplicity and a straight-forward narrative is found to be the most...
UNION SQUARE-Albert Halper-Viking...
...Author Halper is not impatient. Neither, it appears, are his publishers. Four years ago he sent The Viking Press a novel. The editors ''read it with interest," turned it down. Year later his literary agent brought them a second novel. The editors argued over it, disagreed, finally decided to pay Halper for an option on another book. The third book was also turned down. By this time Author Halper was washing dishes for a living. Nothing daunted, the Viking editors advanced him more money, asked him to try again. Result: Union Square, a "first" novel so editorially pleasing...
Taking more than one leaf from the same notebook which Authors Dos Passos and Alfred Doblin used, which Maestro James Joyce used before them, Halper has neatly stitched together a story contemporary, kaleidoscopically eye-witnessing as a newsreel, but more dramatically edited than most cinema. Union Square's action is more continuous but less comprehensive than Dos Passos' more ambitious book. With a half-dozen main characters, a score of walk-on parts, the story gives an animated, life-like cross-section of teeming Manhattan...