Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with Louis Bromfield's novel...
CASH ITEM-Catharine Brody-Longmans, Green ($2). Watchers for the U. S. Proletarian Novel have been disappointed again & again. Last year, when Catharine Brody published Nobody Starves, many of them hailed book and author with pent-up fervor. Though Cash Item disobeys the strictest canon of proletarian literature by having a "hero," a "heroine." its attack on U. S. economic conditions in general, on small-town banksters in particular, should raise more proletarian huzzas. Plain readers will find it uncomfortably interesting reading. More effective as anti-bankster propaganda than a more straightforward indictment, Cash Item is writtten in bare, matter...
...your pleasant review of my latest novel you make the statement that "In real life people never talk so wordily to the point." Are you sure of that? It is a modern and popular dictum, but I doubt it. I would like to make a dictaphone test. I admit that in crowded and busy places, New York, and so on, conversation is mostly reduced to a minimum, but even there it can be found, and, oddly enough, particularly among those whose novels are distinguished for shotgun brevity between characters. Investigate that point. As to the rest of the country, where...
...title poem, like many a Jeffers narrative, starts off in realistic-novel style, plods up into high but hellish places where the wind blows too strong for realism. On a drunken picnic at the seashore Lance caught his brother Michael making love to his wife Fayne: in an instant he had killed Michael. Next instant he regretted it: and if quick-witted Fayne had not made it seem an accident, the murder had been out. To keep the truth from killing his mother, and to save Lance. Fayne persuaded him not to confess what he had done. But his atonement...
...PROSELYTE-Susan Ertz-Appleton-Century ($2.50). Historical novel about the Mormons, in pre-Smoot, Brigham Young days...