Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunters, Gardner impatient at her squeamishness. With this symbolic incident as a beginning, I Am the Fox carefully retraces the steps in Selma s career that gave her a feeling of identification with the hunted, of hatred and fear of the pursuers. A matter-of-fact, occasionally amusing novel, I Am the Fox is the Atlantic Monthly's $10,000 prize novel the work of a 34-year-old Iowa teacher, her first full-length book. Between chapters devoted to Selma's early years her observations on the small-town marriages around her, her first experiences with...
GREENGATES-R. C. Sherriff-Stokes ($2.50). Quiet English novel by the author of Journey's End, detailing the struggles of quiet Mr. Baldwin to readjust himself to life upon his retirement after 41 years in business...
...MOUNTAIN AND THE PLAIN-Herbert Gorman-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Long (653-pp.), slow-moving, historical novel of the French Revolution, revolving around a 21-year-old hero who saw everyone from Tom Paine to Lafayette, and everything from the fall of the Bastille to the Execution of Louis...
...beautifully-conceived mosaic for which the art of an entire period has contributed the material. That it is written in as graceful prose as any U. S. writer can claim is a tribute to Mr. Brooks's taste. That he can quote the source, in some novel, diary, letter or essay, "for every phrase" in its 537 pages, is testimony of his creative scholarship...
...grew more powerful. At last he could not write at all, getting into that frantic state of inability to concentrate that later cursed Mark Twain. "Hard as he tried to write, pulling down the blinds and locking his door, he could not bring his mind into focus. The novel became two novels, and the two became four He could not fix upon a single setting...even his theme eluded him...He made four beginnings, constantly changing his perspective, until he could scarcely bear to touch his blurred and meaningless manuscripts. A few of the scenes took form with...