Word: krey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Main criticisms of U. S. literary clubwomen about U. S. publishing are that books cost too much, are too long, that publishers try to dictate their reading habits by high-pressure publicity. In San Antonio, for example, club members snubbed Laura Krey's highly publicized romance, . . . and Tell of Time, preferred Jonathan Daniels' sober criticism, A Southerner Discovers the South. In Omaha, clubwomen feel that publishers pay too much attention to Manhattan opinion, not enough to the more spiritual interests of Midwesterners. But the major complaint of women's literary clubs throughout the U. S. is that...
...TELL OF TIME-Laura Krey- Houghton Mifflin...
...TELL OF TIME-Laura Krey- Houghton Mifflin...
...interesting sample of the latter is . . . and Tell of Time, a 712-page novel based on the post-Civil War background of Author Krey's Texas forbears (the family still owns a plantation in the cotton-growing Brazos Valley of southeastern Texas). Here the tedium of the narrative contrasts particularly with the dramatic events in which the family was involved. The Civil War itself was only slightly more violent than Reconstruction Texas, with its swarms of ruined Confederate soldiers turned loose, its bitter landowners turned Ku Kluxers to fight a black army of occupation...
...blue-eyed Cavin Darcy, heir to a big Texas cotton plantation, goes home with a Georgia bride, immediately becomes a leading Ku Klux Klan guerrilla and politician in the sacred cause of States' Rights. The main story covers the years when Reconstruction violence is at its height. Author Krey's historical background (from the planters' viewpoint) is well informed. But Cavin's leading part is woodenly dramatized. Although he rides with the Klan, is away for weeks on secret political missions, the reader catches him only when he has returned to the plantation and talks with...