Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cautious Amorist, Norman Lindsay wrote a neat little novel recounting in realistic terms what would actually happen to three men and a pretty woman on a desert island. An Australian, an artist and an expert plot-builder, Author Lindsay worked it out plausibly: the three men were soon at each other's throats, each knew himself preferred, and as for the lady, nobody knew what she thought. Illustrating this story with his vigorous sketches, Author Lindsay managed to keep its satire good-natured without dulling its edge. Last week, in Age of Consent, he repeated his performance with another...
...inspires him to the best work he has done. Before long, peace-loving Mudgett is involved in as many complications as a Prime Minister, with the old lady blackmailing him for no crime, the bank clerk dodging the police who are not after him. Above the level of comic-novel fooling are good descriptions of Mudgett at work-more concerned about light and color than about the girl he is painting, gradually awaking to the fact that his pictures are getting bolder, better, brighter, the more he sees of her. By the time his emotions are most involved...
...Novel based on the wire service providing race-track information to poolroom bookmakers, with much whipped-up and unconvincing material on the size of the racket, and much melodrama on the attempts of racketeers to get control of it. The best section, telling how dumb Joe Dugan of Kansas City unwittingly beat up a powerful gangster, who thereafter thought the worst mob yet had come to town, is so funny that the rest of the book seems flatter by contrast...
...cities of the West and South after their Manhattan popularity has dwindled. Ten percent of all books sold in the U. S. are sold in New York City and its leading favorite outsells the headliner of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and San Francisco combined. Thus a new novel like Howard Spring's My Son, My Son!, now leading the field in New York City, has just begun to sell in the West and South, although its total sale of 12,000 copies last month puts it ahead of the most popular books of those regions. Surprisingly...
...Atlanta, Ga. and Dallas, Tex., accounting for less than one percent of the U. S. book business between them, the best-seller was Gwen Bristow's romantic Southern novel, The Handsome Road, although The Importance of Living sold better at the new five-story Cokesbury Book Store in Dallas than it did in Washington and Cleveland stores...