Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quaint performance, that review of my novel, Between Two Worlds! [TIME, March 24]. Your reviewer cannot forgive me because I write "easily." He ought to know that I have been 46 years at it; the day when I began may have been before he was born. [Right-ED.] There is a saying that "easy writing makes hard reading"; but your critic admits that in my case both are easy...
...rise of Jackpot Riley reads like a W. R. Burnett novel. He saw Shanghai first in the '20s, a sailor off a U.S. Yangtze Patrol sloop, drinking in the dives along "Blood Alley." When he finished his hitch in the Navy he went back to the U.S., soon landed in the Oklahoma State penitentiary under the name of Johnny Becker, with a 25-year sentence for attempted highjacking. Two years later he escaped from jail, headed again for Shanghai...
...summer of 1939 as a serial in Collier's, next as the sincere, ineffective film So Ends Our Night (TIME, Feb. 10). In its final form, the result of a year's revision, it is worthy of an author who is responsible for the best novel about World War I, two of the best about post-war Germany...
...twenty-eight years. The man is Charles Boyer, as suave and guttural as always, and the woman is Margaret Sullavan, who is one of the few women left in Hollywood who rely more upon acting than glamour. With the excellent performances of these lovers, the picture simulates the original novel in every detail. All the emotions and reactions of a twentieth-century working girl and her undercover affair with a famous banker are there in perfect order. So much stirring of the human soul could, however, be fit only for the sensitivities of a disappointed matron, which...
This is the first novel of any real stature to come out of World War II. Under the steely immediacies of England's sky, it should make sensational reading. Even at a relatively comfortable distance, it has points that break the skin...