Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literary event of the week took place in Paris, where Dans un Mois, Dans un An (In a Month, In a Year), the third novel in four years by Franchise (Bonjour, Tristesse) Sagan, 22, appeared, to the tune of a phenomenal first printing of 200,000 copies. Dedicated to Publisher Guy Schoeller, mid-fortyish, the man she has announced she will marry next winter, the book proved to be another bedtime story, no longer in the first person singular like the previous two, but still very personal. Its characters hop from boredom to boudoir and back again, and when asked...
...moved his boys into the Teamsters Union, taken over the trusteeship of debt-ridden Teamster Local 299 in Detroit. Singlemindedly, he shoved ahead. "In those days," says Hoffa in his rough, staccato voice, "Detroit was the toughest open-shop town in the country. It was like a dime crime novel, with all the shootings and slug-gings. I was hit so many times with nightsticks, clubs and brass knuckles that I can't ever remember where the bruises were. But I can hit back. Guys who tried to break me up got broken up. It was no picnic...
...favorite Punch target), he treats sentimentality, mediocrity and many a sacred cow with waspish wit, which, coupled with his upper-crust air, has made the popular press bill him as "the man you love to hate." Muggeridge will go on being fascinatingly hateful on TV, plans a novel and a biography of George (1984) Orwell. At Punch, where Muggeridge's brisk ways produced some sparks as well as sparkle, the management still mulled over his successor, but insiders were sure that no outsider would be needed again for a long time...
...first the book reads like a suspense tale of survival, told with a sort of totalitarian recall-minute details of rocks, water, limpets, seaweed are forced on the reader, until Lieut. Martin's every movement is seen as in a microscope of time. Swiftly, the novel makes clear that what matters is not Martin's survival but the kind of man who is or is not to survive. Also, Novelist Golding makes clear a subtle philosophical notion-that one can change the past by what one thinks about it. On civvy street Martin had been an actor (professionally...
...Real Enemy. Author Fred Majdalany, a British newspaperman, fought at Cassino (with the Lancashire Fusiliers) and has already used it as the scene of a novel (The Monastery). His descriptions of tactics and close-in fighting are masterly, his assessment of the principals sometimes harsh. He censures Winston Churchill for repeated interference with the generals in the field, and he charges U.S. General Mark Clark with publicity-seeking, buck-passing, and an inferiority complex. His favorites are Britain's General Sir Harold Alexander ("the embodiment of all that is most admired in the English character") and the U.S. commander...