Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your review of Truman Capote's Other Voices Other Rooms [TIME, Jan. 26) concludes . . . : "For all his novel's gifted invention and imagery, the distasteful trappings of its homosexual theme overhang it like Spanish moss...
...soon as the curtain is up (there is no overture), it is clear that Peter Grimes, although he has committed no crime, is as doomed as a character in a Kafka novel. The opera opens with Peter facing an inquest-indeed a trial-in the village hall. He has just returned from a fishing voyage with his boy apprentice dead. The inquest absolves him, but with sinister warnings that it had better not happen again, and the townspeople gossip about him. Peter rages: "Charges that no court has made will be shouted at my head . . . let me stand trial. Bring...
Once upon a time Charles O. Gorham was publicity chief of the biggest U.S. book publisher (Doubleday). Now he has set out to do for the publishing business what Frederic Wakeman has done for the "hucksters." The result is The Gilded Hearse, a novel which Doubleday is not publishing...
...children of World War I's "lost generation," themselves the generation of World War II, may be too harried to be happy. But they like to think of themselves as too unsentimental to get lost. In his second novel, Merle Miller (29) attempts an aftermath-of-war pastiche of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, winds up with an embarrassing imitation of his master's style and a case history of three neurotic young men whose problems would be much the same with or without...
...sheer weight of words and incidents and research were the only criteria, "Raintree Country" would be the Great American Novel that Mr. Lockridge so obviously intends it to be. Or if complexity of structure and multiplicity of symbolism were the means of indexing and ranking novels, it would stand close to the top. But something else, unfortunately, is needed...