Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sinclair Lewis' new novel concerns Aaron Gadd, a carpenter by trade, who by a singular series of half-convictions, and somewhat to his own surprise, becomes a missionary to the Sioux Indians...
Knock on Any Door (Santana; Columbia) carries an earnest but wobbly torch for a familiar social message. It also carries the imprint of a new independent called Santana Productions, partly owned by Humphrey Bogart. For his first effort as a producer, Bogart chose Willard Motley's bestselling novel, put Director Nicholas Ray to work behind the cameras, then walked around in front of the lens into the leading role...
About his future--for veterans are a sometime thing, after all-Monro is not talking. He would like to write a novel someday, and not about the war, either. He drops in at the Armory every week for whatever sort of reserve drill they give full Commanders in the Navy. And he talks, a bit wistfully, of the little vacation he's going to take "after everything gets squared away." Beyond this, his plans are vague, except for the assurance that he "aims to be useful...
After a summer's work, he showed up in New York with the manuscript of The Unspeakable Gentleman, an amateurish historical novel which Literary Agent Carl Brandt promptly sold to the Ladies' Home Journal. Says Marquand now: "I will be goddamned if I know why I wrote it. To me it's an indecent exposure and I'm thoroughly ashamed of it." It seemed different at the time: he put his check for $2,000 in the Atlantic Bank of Boston, got a new pair of shoes and had his broken pipes repaired. Admits Marquand...
Heads v. Walls. In Point of No Return, readers will find the most skillful elaboration of the typical Marquand novel theme. Charley Gray, the boy from Spruce Street, does well enough in life, but there are some things he cannot attain when he most wants to, some things he can never attain. He cannot close the gap between Spruce Street and aristocratic Johnson Street in his boyhood town of Clyde, Mass, (for which, perhaps, read Newburyport). Jessica Lovell lived on Johnson Street and was in love with Charley Gray, but it was clear from the start that snobbery wouldn...