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...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas Monsarrat's bestseller and filled with the salt spray and shellbursts of naval warfare (TIME...
Four novelists with solid reputations hold most of the ground they have already gained but gain little new in their latest books. Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat gets as far away from ships and war as he can in The Story of Esther Costello (Knopf). It is a skillfully written attack on the ruthless ballyhoo which makes an innocent handicapped girl the center of a charity racket. Another novelist who finds it hard to do anything seriously wrong is Wright Morris. In The Deep Sleep (Scribner), he dissects the private lives of a Philadelphia Main Line family, and shows that...
...appreciated by the Foreign Office, which believes its juniors should tend to their tasks and keep out of trouble. "For blotting my copybook," as he put it, Hall was transferred to the Commonwealth Relations Office. Later, he was posted to Ottawa as assistant to Novelist Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat in the Commonwealth press office. He kept up the prodding. Finally the British in Moscow gave Clara a job as a telephonist and let her and her son move into the embassy...
...TIME, July 27) from most of the important U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines and went away chorusing praise for British Star Alec Guinness and Actress Irene Worth, the Canadian cast, and the direction of Tyrone Guthrie, from London's Old Vic. Wrote Author Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat, a guest critic for the Ottawa Citizen: "You can rate [it] with . . . the Passion Play at Oberammergau or with the yearly season of plays at Stratford on Avon." The New York Times's Brooks Atkinson called the festival "a genuine contribution to Shakespeare...
...trade journal The Bookseller, British Novelist Nicholas Monsarrat, who saw World War II from a Royal Navy bridge and told his story in The Cruel Sea (about 800,000 copies sold), trained his guns on Herman Wouk, U.S.N.R. and The Caine Mutiny (about 2,000,000 copies). Wouk's novel of life on a minesweeper, said Monsarrat, "is most readable, often engrossing, and as true an account . . . as a ten-year-old child's drawing of an aircraft carrier...