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...Wall, by John Hersey. The tragic, agonized story of Jews resisting extermination in Warsaw's ghetto during the Nazi occupation; a sometimes moving, often tedious novel in diary form which never quite succeeds in recapturing the factual tang and immediacy of Hiroshima (TIME, March...
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...John Hersey has failed to wallow in emotion. He has lighted his whole book with the light of a rich, humane irony, which rids one of the muddy effect of vast quantities of raw feeling...
These qualities are embodied in the person of Noach Levinson, the diarist on whose discovered documents Hersey maintains he is basing his book. Levinson is an ugly man who runs around wheedling information from the central group of characters-people who are growing together under the curious pressures of the ghetto...
...Hersey has written a very fine novel; he has achieved that delicate thing; an ironic book, in perfect taste, about an ugly situation...