Word: marmot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about John Fist in this ambitious and often amusing novel. Old Pro John Hersey has a deeper purpose than picturing the humiliation of being young, however. Combining the sound reporting skill he employed in A Bell for Adano, and The Wall with the wild imagination he showed in The Marmot Drive and White Lotus, he has tried to explore the collegiate mind, to understand why today's undergraduates are so hard to communicate with, so susceptible to aimlessness, boredom and rebellion...
...magnificent volumes of journalism that make the Book of the Month Club. Into the Valley and Hiroshima are classics of reportage. All Hersey's best novels (A Bell for Adano, The Wall, A Single Pebble) are lightly fictionalized feature stories lifted from current history. His worst novels (The Marmot Drive, The Child Buyer) are nonjournalistic creations of an uncreative imagination. But even in the bad novels Author Hersey has always tried terribly hard to make literature. In White Lotus, he apparently tried only to make the Book of the Month Club...