Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambitious Jules Remains is working on a scheme as big as Honoré de Balzac's. His slowly growing super-novel, Men of Good Will, is being built to specifications to contain a whole city - 20th Century Paris. Goggling onlookers, seeing the size of the completed foundations, may now have some idea of the extent of the building, but Architect Romains, though he admits his construction will cover a lot of ground, still refuses to post his blueprints or release a front elevation. Before putting down tools for this section he thanks spectators for their patient interest, promises that...
...Good Will might have stirred up more excitement among critics if Authors James Joyce, John Dos Passos et al. had not already shown the way. Though Author Romains claims to be the originator of this style of modern novel-architecture, others were certainly first in the field. But if not best or first of its kind, Men of Good Will may yet be biggest...
...author has selected a fragment from the history of the beginnings of America and has made of it a ground upon which he creates an edifice compounded of the sufferings, victories and defeats of those early pioneers in the first days of industrialism in our country. This novel is the richly human story of a lone giant of the earth, George Rood, who wages a single-handed fight against a glass manufacturing enterprise which springs up across the road from his farm upon the discovery of natural gas in the vicinity...
...hotel, but Ora drifts to Manhattan, his idea of Parnassus. Step by step, but with a fatherly eye more on priggish Myron than on piggish Ora, Author Lewis reports their slow, vicissitudinous careers. Ora finds the fleshpots of Greenwich Village agree with him. He writes one good but unsuccessful novel, the fruit of a brutally selfish love affair with a mulatto girl. Then he supports himself in uneven luxury by literary hackwork (including begging letters), borrowing, sponging. Eventually he develops a flair for playwriting. makes a tidy fortune, goes to Hollywood...
...begins with her death sentence, ends with the interview in her girlhood that lost her her lover. This reversal of the time sequence has a natural advantage of giving the story a marked crescendo. With his second book, Author Coxe has come a long stride forward since his first novel (Passage to the Sky). First Love and Last is a cleanly written, intelligent, first-rate...