Word: mergendahl
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...ONLY TEMPORARY (273 pp.) -Charles Mergendahl-Doubleday...
...that Author Charles Mergendahl has with such background stuff is the best thing in his light little novel, It's Only Temporary. Whenever he sticks to impressionistic sketches of packaged postwar living, his book is amusing. But since It's Only Temporary is also supposed to be a novel, Mergendahl feels obligated to write about people. The result is a soupy and inept story about Veteran Don Cousins and his wife Shelley, who cannot decide whether to save money by sticking to Camptown and his job or take the long chance of striking out for Montana and starting...