Word: nordhoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling continued to hold top place, at month's end it was losing ground to Howard Spring's My Son, My Son!, seemed sure to be supplanted. Crowding both was Nordhoff & Hall's The Dark River, called by booksellers a "one-month" bestseller. Possibly Kenneth Roberts' Trending Into Maine should be considered in the same category. At any rate. success in Pittsburgh and Boston made Author Roberts the only U. S. author of the year to have two books on best-seller lists...
...DARK RIVER-Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall - Little, Brown...
...DARK RIVER-Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall - Little, Brown...
...mothers' proverb, referring to boys' chores, says that "Two boys are only half a boy." This saying applies also to most literary collaborations, even to those of such individually able collaborators as were Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. To Tahiti-Expatriates Nordhoff & Hall, who in 18 years have collaborated on eight books, it applied least in their H. M. S. Bounty trilogy, where they followed a true story, applies most in The Dark River, where they follow their imaginations, the Satevepost (where this story ran serially) and Hollywood...
...born child at the same time, steals the white girl, whom she calls Naia, raises her as her own. From England, when Naia is 16, comes her real brother and his friend, tall, grey-eyed Alan Hardie, a promising young scientist, son of a stiff-necked general. Hardened Melodramatists Nordhoff & Hall are careful to keep these complications from turning into a story of incest, end their tale with the marriage of Naia and Alan, their shipwreck on a deserted island, rescue, tragedy...