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Mister Johnson, by Joyce Gary. A fresh and exuberant story of the rise & fall of a Nigerian career man; close to Author Gary's brilliant best (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Dec. 3, 1951 | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Mister Johnson, by Joyce Gary. A fresh and rarely exuberant story of the rise & fall of a Nigerian career man; close to Author Gary's brilliant best (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Mister Johnson, by Joyce Gary. A fresh and rarely exuberant story of the rise & fall of a Nigerian career man ; close to Author Gary's brilliant best (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Mister Johnson, by Joyce Gary. A fresh and exuberant story of the rise & fall of a Nigerian career man; close to Author Gary's brilliant best (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...Mister Johnson is considerably more than the portrait of a picaresque primitive. In a short novel, Cary has managed to convey the squalor of African village existence, the frustrations of English officials and the enormous volatility and friendliness of the Nigerian native. Novelist Cary, unlike most of his fellow practitioners, always seems to write as if he enjoyed it. In Mister Johnson his pleasure edges every sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blithe Spirit | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

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