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...William Corcoran NIGHT AT HOGWALLOW- Theodore Strauss One of the scarcest forms of U. S. literature, the novelette until recently has been catalogued by U. S. publishers as a fiction, freak. To support this view, publishers could name on the fingers of one hand such lonely little albinos as Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame, Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins. But since the appearance of such big white-headed boys as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind, short novels have also climbed aboard best-seller lists (The Postman Always...
Representing the contemporary U. S. scene are William Corcoran's This Man, Joe Murray and Theodore Strauss's Night at Hogwallow. Both books and authors have working-class backgrounds. Tough, popular, sentimental hero of This Man, Joe Murray falls hard for a beautiful, chaste Polish girl, blames himself when she is run over by a train. Marrying without love, he exorcises the dead girl's memory, realizes his wife's worth only after a too jauntily told, bitter period of Unemployment and bumming. Night at Hogwallow is a bloodcurdling first work 'aid in the deep...
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