Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendly analyst of his native Midwest, Newsman Martin has turned his fact finding into eight books, but flopped the one time he tried a novel. (The publisher sent him a one-sentence comment: "You had better stick to nonfiction.") Says Martin: "I've always been interested in the individual human being and what happens to him in a society that really doesn't work as well as it should. I think that's the common denominator of my work. Sounds kind of pretentious, but I think...
Edward Dmytryk maintains the integrity of Irwin Shaw's World War II novel--tracing the lives of a young German officer and two American G.I.'s (via a number of transcontinental camera switches) to their final encounter on the French countryside...
...concession to the inadequacies of the organ, timpani were used with powerful and at times terrifying effect. But the apocalyptic climaxes were achieved at the price of turning the second chorus into a kettledrum concerto, and the theatricality of this novel compromise did not blend well with the rest of the performance...
Twenty-five years ago Erskine Caldwell wrote an oversexed novel called God's Little Acre that sold more than eight million copies and was banned in Boston, among other places. Hollywood recently decided that a new generation of Americans was ready for a wide-screen, narrow-mind treatment of the book and will release it the end of May. In honor of this step forward, the author, his wife, and two agents dropped in on Boston recently...
...admire a man who has made fiction a profession, who can turn out a novel in six weeks to ten months, even if he lacks artistry or conviction. If he can tell a story--and Caldwell can--he's entertaining. "I wouldn't try to tell anyone how to become a writer or try to influence anyone's style, but I hope that my example is occasionally an inspiration." Caldwell's approach is disarmingly bland and frank. He's not an old lecher, and he's probably a lot softer than he was in the Depression years, but he still...