Word: humeses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Men Die, by H. L. Humes. Fate rings its intricate coils around some white officers and Negro enlisted men tunneling a Caribbean ammunition dump. In their common doom, Novelist Humes finds some timeless observations about the human condition.
MEN DIE (183 pp.)-H. L. Humes-Random House ($3.50)
A talented young first novelist named H. L. (for Harold Louis) Humes last year produced an almost classic example of the ambitious book that tries to say too much. The Underground City (TIME, May 26, 1958) was at once a war novel, a treatise on right and wrong, an indictment...
Love with Torture. Author Humes has devised a story that goes well beyond the tensions and the holocaust on the island. At the funeral, young Sulgrave meets the commander's wife, and there begins a tortured, driving love affair that is not only credible but deeply revealing. Through it...
Author Humes does his work in flashbacks, not the smooth ones of a Marquand, but brusque revelations carved out like sections of a monument to doom. Unfortunately, he also chooses to interpolate interior monologues, which prove only that he has not read James Joyce well enough. But these form a...