Word: noonday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly, across the noonday sky from west to east, swept a brilliant fireball. It left a long trail of white (some observers said black) smoke, and it flew so high that it was seen almost simultaneously in Greenville, Miss., Montgomery, Ala. and Atlanta. Over Sylacauga it exploded with a boom like thunder (some said a series of booms). A schoolboy in Montgomery, 50 miles away, insisted that the blast almost knocked him off his bicycle...
...VISIONARY NOVELS OF GEORGE MACDONALD (434 pp.)-Edited by Anne Fremantle-Noonday Press...
Camara Laye is a young Negro from French Guinea, now studying in Paris, who has written a brief, effective autobiography, THE DARK CHILD (188 pp.; Noonday Press; $2.75). It has an aura of primitive charm that is fully matched by its simple dignity. Laye came from Kouroussa, a town in the interior, where his father was a famous goldsmith. The town was near the railroad and had a hospital and schools, but its inhabitants believed in spirits and magic spells, although they were Moslems. Laye is firmly convinced that his mother had magic powers, tells how even the witch doctors...
MUSEUM PIECES, by William Plomer (282 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is an expertly-fashioned literary paradox: a sad comedy that turns into an amusing tragedy. It is about a couple of leftovers from Edwardian England-Toby d'Arfey, a brilliant, sardonic dilettante who was born in 1900 and develops into a stepchild of the century, and his twice-widowed mother, Mrs. Mountfaucon, a sweet and summery ineffectual thing who is abused by her son and adores it. Toby's career is marked by his successive failures as a speculator, opera singer, painter, milliner and playwright. During World...
PHILOSOPHER OR DOG? (271 pp.)-Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Clotilde Wilson-Noonday Press...