Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swing-crazy world has come a small book called "Young Man With a Horn", by Dorothy Baker which rather unconsciously contains about the finest description of swing music that could be put into words. It is a short novel, inspired by the playing of an excellent musician in a jazz orchestra who died several years ago, and it merely tells the story of Rick Martin, who found in swing an outlet for artistic expression but at the same time a destructive medium which he could not fit to his life...
...House of Tavelinck, by Holland's leading feminist and most popular novelist, is a long (738 pages), crowded, historical romance told against an 18th-Century background of the fight between the House of Orange and the Dutch democrats. Like many a present-day historical novel, this one is a tribute to the author's talents as a researcher rather than as a novelist; like her U. S. contemporaries, she lays history and romance in layers as neat as layer cake...
Death last year ended Edith Wharton's work on a novel which might have been her masterpiece. She had written 29 chapters of a book apparently planned to run to about 35 chapters. The story had reached its climax; the characters were at a moment in their careers when they were compelled to make irrevocable decisions. While Mrs. Wharton left notes suggesting how she intended to end the novel, she gave no hint of how she intended to solve its moral and esthetic problems. Last week her literary executor, Gaillard Lapsley,* offered The Buccaneers as a novel complete...
Among these agile regionalists none is subtler than Poet Allen Tate, who has written biographies (Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis), contributed to regional anthologies,, made himself their best-known spokesman. The Fathers, his first novel, exhibits Border-State mentality at its most devious. The story, laid in Virginia and Maryland during the first days of the Civil War, is recalled 50 years later by an old bachelor doctor named Lacy Buchan. The protagonist, however, is the narrator's brother-in-law, a handsome, money-making Marylander named George Posey, whom the narrator worshiped but only vaguely understood. The elder Buchans...
...picture of Southern family relationships, The Fathers might well have furnished a plot for William Faulkner. But in a Faulkner novel the portrayal of decadence would have left no room for Tate's wavering conclusion. Between Novelists Tate and Faulkner the gulf is as wide as that which separated the Border States' champion compromiser, Henry Clay, and the Deep South's champion non-compromiser, Jeff Davis...