Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last fortnight, soft-voiced, grey-haired Elizabeth Seifert, winner of the $10,000 Dodd, Mead-Redbook Magazine novel contest, attended a big luncheon in her honor at which Hendrik Van Loon, Pearl Buck and other literary notables spoke, hurried back to her home town of Moberly, Mo. to start work on another novel. The wife of a refrigeration engineer (her real name is Mrs. John Gasparotti), Prize-winner Seifert won over 1,200 contestants with Young Doctor Galahad, a story of a small-town physician, planned to use her winnings to educate her four children. For herself she bought...
...American working class-of drivers who virtually live in their trucks, drive 30 hours without sleep, travel the roads for weeks without getting to bed. Last week a 29-year-old California truck driver summoned up some of this strange nocturnal life on wheels in a brief first novel...
CONCERT PITCH-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2.50). Subtle, simply written novel of the post-War Paris musical world, brilliantly dramatizing the doom of the virtuoso, the dissonant emergence of a new machine age; by the author of last year's distinguished surprise bestseller, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town...
...DARK COMMAND-W. R. Burnett -Knopf ($2.50). Lickity-split romance against a background of Kansas-Missouri border fighting; by the author of Little Caesar. A supplementary four-page leaflet explains who his Confederate villain was in real life, makes better reading than much of the novel...
JOURNEY TO THE WEST-Darwin L. Teilhet-Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Picaresque, 593-page novel about a high-pressure, radical Manhattan adman, stranded in Seattle, who gets entangled with quacks, radical slickers and adventuresses, in a gory, last-scene fight saves his soul and his future father-in-law's brewery...