Word: nest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BIRD'S NEST (276 pp.)-Shirley Jackson-FarrarStraus &Young...
...vogue this season. In A Garden to the Sea (TIME, April 19), Philip Toynbee split his hero four ways, mainly to tell an experimental love story. Marghanita Laski used the simpler, two-way, Jekyll & Hyde approach in The Victorian Chaise Longue (TIME, June 14). In The Bird's Nest, Novelist Shirley Jackson reverts to Toynbee's four-in-one split to document a tortuous case of mental illness...
...this point The Bird's Nest* promises some interesting psychological explosions...
...racing axiom has it that a thoroughbred always returns to its best form. In The Lottery and Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson gave signs of being a writing thoroughbred, but The Bird's Nest marks only scattered returns to her best form...
...Model is less fragmentary and more engrossing. An artist (Daniel Gelin) and a model (Simone Simon) have a passionate affair, set up housekeeping in a beautifully improbable love nest, quarrel and separate. Up until this point, the love story might have been written by Colette, but De Maupassant ends it with the detached irony that is his trademark...