Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't like them. In one of the stories I was supposed to strangle a dog. Just imagine me hurting an animal! The Clara story is wonderful! What a nice idea to save bad men!" To busy herself off the set, Minou is grinding out a novel, The Reptiles of Light, a sad story of a little blind girl. Also, the heat and dust of the studio have made her yearn for the sea, with this result...
...ASSISTANT, by Bernard Malamud. An aging Jewish Brooklyn grocer, a holdup and a thief's remorse seem hardly the substance of a good novel. This book becomes one through its tender, realistic grasp of the meanings, small defeats and even smaller victories in the lives of seemingly hopeless people...
...LOVE POSSESSED, by James Gould Cozzens. The best U.S. novel of the year, wrought of many kinds of love and their power to strengthen or warp character, make or break the lives of man or woman. Through its lawyer hero, the book also deals with something most U.S. novelists have forgot about-man's responsibility...
...BREAD ALONE, by Vladimir Dudintsev. No great shakes as a novel, but an important book, published in the West despite Moscow protests. With toughness and sarcasm, a Russian living in Russia in effect damns the Soviet regime, its bureaucracy and cynical disregard for individual aspiration...
...DEATH IN THE FAMILY, by James Agee. A hymn to life, sung in the story of a man's death and the complex of feelings that course through the hearts and minds of his family. The novel's greatest strength is in its delicacy, the most unusual effects gained from a loving knowledge of the tragedy that underlies the usual...