Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶Champion Rock Falls Colonel, an orange belton English setter, best-in-show at the Morris & Essex Kennel Club Show, over 2,568 entries; at Madison, N.J.
MAN AND BOY (212 pp.)-Wright Morris-Knopf ($3).
Man and Boy is the brief chronicle of that christening day. The plot is perfunctory: Mr. & Mrs. Ormsby get up, dress, catch a train for New York, and are escorted to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where Mr. Ormsby takes a back seat while Mother makes an embarrassing little speech. What...
In fact, Novelist Morris fishes so quietly, and in such common waters, that the uncommon quality of his haul may easily be overlooked. He has an insight which tells him that simple minds are only as simple as they are thought to be. Father is not just a stupid, henpecked...
Nebraska-born Wright Morris, 41, now lives in Pennsylvania, divides his time between writing and photography (he has written five previous books, illustrated two of them). Man and Boy has some important faults: it is sometimes slickly sentimental, and the coarse humor does not always make the reader smile, as...