Word: novel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winner of the 1954 Atlantic Monthly Award for the best short story by a new author, Gill has since written stories for the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review. He will devote some of his time to work on a novel...
...stage adaptation of Miss Lonelyhearts provides a torturous evening of theater, because the body of Nathanael West's wonderful novel has been ground up, its soul purged, and the resulting hamburg kneaded around a cast of very bad actors...
...novel Miss Lonelyhearts is the fierce portrait of a young man who laughingly undertakes a lonelyhearts column to provide human interest for the Chronicle. His cynical facade is cracked, and finally broken away by letters from starving mothers, sick breadwinners, and unwed pregnants; with love and reason for life lost, his mind founders, and he drives for death...
...used to open up quite a bit in the morning, but the only person who came to see me then was T. S. Eliot's sister-in-law." Afternoons, however, the Grolier Book Shop becomes a community haven and meeting place. Last year, a girl working on a novel used the back room of his shop. Standing on Gordon's bookshelves are the drawings and water-colors of whatever unknown artist he happens to be be-friending. Some of his customers have keys themselves and if he is absent they will open the store for him, leaving money collected...
...Strange One. From Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man)-a slick, sadistic thriller about a southern military academy, and a notable film debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...