Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de Havilland as the mental patient (TIME...
...Green is an English novelist (Odd Man Out; A Flask for the Journey) with a special knack for portraying the terrors of obscure city people. His aim: to steer a middle course between the bloodstained thriller and the bloodless novel of ideas. His latest novel achieves it. Mist on the Waters is a taut telling of a crime of weakness, and of the forces it releases in the lives of its perpetrators...
Prepared Destruction. From there on, the novel moves with accumulating speed. Ratty little Fingal begins to tremble for his skin. He has "gone too far into evil ... a climax towards which his whole life in its indolence and evil has been foolishly shaping." Pelancey is gnawed by deeper fears: his clumsy conscience eats at his heart. "I'm warning you, Barty," he says, "you can't get rid of it. It's done . . . Only thing to do is to put up with it, and say nothing...
...Wreath of Roses is not the "perfect novel" that she has confessed she would like to write, but it contains three extremely well-drawn characters: two young women and a baby. Confidantes and friends . from girlhood, Camilla Hill and Liz Nicholson are spending their summer holiday together again in an old village, full of gardens which ooze sunny peace as a honeycomb oozes honey. Liz's new baby creates all kinds of subtle estrangements, hilarities and tensions. A more serious tension arises when a handsome young stranger arrives at the local inn; though Camilla knows that he is dangerous...
...plausibly, but no individual emerges. At the climax of the story Camilla is filled with understandable terror at learning that her new friend is a murderer. The motives and behavior of the young man at this point are, however, by no means made credible to the reader. The novel ends rather helplessly with his suicide...