Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Radclyffe Hall, 57, monocled authoress of 1929's bestselling, Lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness; of cancer; in London...
...seen a Russian, knew no Russian history. But Russians, he believed, were no different at heart from Oklahomans. So Paul read a lot of Tolstoy and every available news story on the Russian war. He studied standard works on Russia, combed encyclopedias. Since his book was to be a novel, Paul added to his research "some understanding of human nature and a little imagination." Then he set to work. In eight months he wrote 586 pages. Last fortnight, Paul Hughes's Retreat from Rostov (Random House, $2.75) reached the public. A week later it had sold out its advance...
...Book. Readers of Retreat from Rostov found Novelist Hughes's mid-Oklahoma notion of Russia and the war a view of uninhibited proportions. The novel was a Russian rodeo of heroes, heroines, Nazi villains, Don Cossacks, foreign correspondents, soldiers, civilians, enough snow to bury an army, enough melodrama to burn out every fuse in Hollywood...
...Author Hughes's novel Rostov does not fall to Nazi might alone. In the beleaguered city sat the Russian traitor, Colonel Blazonny. Every night he slid through a secret panel into a secret room, radioed secret information to the Germans. But Boris was after him. Boris was 6½ ft. tall and hair grew in swirls all over his body, but he managed to steal unnoticed in & out of the German lines on NKVD (secret police) missions. Boris did his best, but though Traitor Blazonny fell at last (with five bullets through his body), so did Rostov...
...fine points of burglary, but the boy, an inept pupil, is arrested after the smashup of a stolen car in which he is riding. The police discover Ernie's mother is a fence (she dies the next day from cancer). Ada decides to marry her gangster boss. The novel ends with Ernie deter mined "to get His own back on the lot of them. ... All He* had to do was sling that jack [into store windows]. Sling it hard and sling it often and pick up His money. Then He could dress His self proper...