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...Nothing, by James Hanley. An ac complished English novelist's brittle, sav age account of the guilt-edged insecurity of three lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nov. 23, 1962 | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...Nothing, by James Hanley. In a bitter, compressed book, a powerful British novelist probes the isolation of three cruelly interlocked lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Nov. 2, 1962 | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...Nothing, by James Hanley. In a novel written almost entirely in jaggededged monosyllables, three guilt-ridden people in the north of England turn life into death by endlessly punishing one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 19, 1962 | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...Hanley's characters are locked up in a strange love-hate relationship in a town in the north of England. Joshua Baines, his wife and her sister Winifred squabble, scream and spy on one another. But none has the strength to break away: a past tragedy keeps them together. On the eve of Winifred's wedding, her fiance, Tom, was seduced by Mrs. Baines. The wedding was called off and Tom died soon after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with the Damned | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...there are occasional glimpses of their pathetic longing for a better life. For all his disgust, the lodger finds it difficult to leave this house, and so, implies Hanley. would anybody. For this is no unique madhouse; as Author Hanley sees it, it is the human condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with the Damned | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

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