Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life Without Props. For almost two years Novelist John Phillips Marquand has been burrowing at the roots of Charley Gray's discontent. Next week, in his latest and best novel, Point of No Return, he gives his readers no pat answer. But, as a good novelist should, he gives them a shrewd, revealing picture of a broad segment of U.S. society...
...Return on commuting trains and at home, after the family car has been run into the garage. Ineligible for Book-of-the-Month Club selection because Marquand is one of the club's five* judges (it can and will be a B-O-M "dividend" book), the novel has already gone through four printings totaling 80,000 copies. Wiseacres in the publishing business look upon the figure as a mild beginning...
Perhaps the most interesting selection in the magazine is John Snow's critique of "The Naked and The Dead." Snow manages to take apart the professional critics neatly and without an undue display of emotion, and then proceeds to point out the qualities of Mailer's novel which never occurred to those who typed him as a straight Dos Passos-Hemingway disciple. This is a considered review which stresses affirmative qualities in the novel unnoticed by most commentators...
...latest news about Elizabeth Bowen is that, in her new novel (her first in ten years), she has taken in hand a whole new range of novelist's material; that this material includes the war and many of the unprecedented goods & evils, loyalties and disloyalties that emerged into mid-century consciousness in the course of it. It is by all odds her finest book...
...typical scene of the novel is London in the blackout of 1942; the relations of human beings to each other have become fragmentary, indefinable and constantly subject to shock. To the apartment of attractive Stella Rodney comes a visitor known to her only as Harrison. He tries to argue her into being seduced and fails. He makes fantastic charges about Stella's friend and faithful lover, Captain Robert Kelway, and, for a time, fails to make the fantastic believable...