Word: novel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Road is a novel about the search for IT currently being led by the Beat Generation, to put the situation in Kerouac's own unequivocal bop-talk. Anyone who's ever listed to Symphony Sid will dig that immediately. For the uninitiated, "down-and-outers" may be offered as a synonym for "Beat Generation," albeit a weak one. Loosely defined, the term can be applied to almost anybody from 15 to 40 who thinks that things are in a hell of a mess so you might as well have a good time. IT is probably best described as an "ECTSTATICALLY...
...SHADOWS (125 pp.)−Françoise Sagan − Dutton ($2.95). Fifty million Frenchmen cannot only be wrong, they can be plain silly. Since the beginning of last month they have bought nearly 350,000 copies (the U.S. equivalent of more than 1,000,000 sales) of a new novel by Franchise Sagan, and the best that can be said for it is that reading its proofs may have done her some good as occupational therapy following her recent near-fatal auto accident. Author Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile showed a certain flair and skill, gave...
...rest of the novel offers more of the same−other vices, other rooms, and a whole collection of young-old aphorisms at the level of: "the most jaded appetite can be stimulated by privation." No privation could be healthier for U.S. literary appetites than a season or two without a book by Françoise Sagan...
Thus Heliodorus opens his swashbuckling Ethiopica, one of the ancestors of the historical novel. Even when it first appeared−about A.D.250−it was a full-fledged historical, for Heliodorus was writing about a period 750 years before his own time. This early blood-and-thunder melodrama comes magnificently alive in this new translation by Columbia University's Jay Professor of Greek, Moses Hadas...
...book is a raggedly plotted novel whose first-person heroine, Sister Ursula, obviously walks in the footsteps of Monica Baldwin. Unhappily, Author Baldwin's story of a nun who misjudges her vocation also treads close on the path of Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's Story, and by comparison comes off secondbest. Such fascination as it has lies in the book's embittered documentation of a nun's daily round and the romantic-escapist character of Sister Ursula who acts like an adolescent schoolgirl at the stage door of heaven waiting...