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...book ever produced by man reeks with as much murder, sodomy, incest, rape and filth as does the so-called word of God. ... No book has held back the march of science as much as has the Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

James Cain's previous novels (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce) gave readers more than a peek into the nature of sadism, masochism and homosexuality. His new novel, which he calls a "small morality tale," reads just like its predecessors, and claims to be about incest. In his introduction, Cain says: "I like it better than I usually like my work, and yet I have an impulse to account for it. ... The many fictions published about me recently bring me to the realization I must ... be less reticent about myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pandora & Pappy | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...hostel usually housed an average of ten regulars (mostly U.S. and British), but at peak periods as many as 40 crowded into its thin-walled cubicles. Telephone conversations were communal; men and women loafed, worked, ate and drank together in what one correspondent described as "spiritual and gossipy incest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Empty Hostel | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...year when mayhem, murder, dipsomania, drug addiction, perversion and incest are much commoner in U.S. novels than in U.S. life, Ilka (In Bed We Cry) Chase has contributed a novel whose muted prurience is almost prim. The story concerns the adventures of two U.S. Quakeresses* named Bean. They are natives of Lanesboro, Pa., where the Widow Bean's father keeps a general store. There, after a week of whirlwind courtship, an itinerant spaghetti salesman named Rechetti marries the widow and whisks her and her daughter, Tilli, off to Italy. He has neglected to tell his U.S. wife that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Bed We Snore | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...first novel ever received prior to publication ($20,000 from the Doubleday-Doran Novel Contest, $125,000 from the M-G-M Annual Novel Award). Life is never dull for Lillian, because Willowspring is astir from dawn to dusk with miscegenation, class conflict, drunkenness, antiSemitism, anti-Catholicism and incest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exotic Pennsylvania | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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