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...COUNTRY by J. B. Priestley. 276 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
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...runway, for example, does not bother airport employees nearly so much as airplane haters, whose complaints about noise rise sharply just after crashes. Typewriters may irritate nearby people, but typists need some clickety-clack for job-satisfaction; using a noiseless machine, says J. B. Priestley, is like "typing on a steak and kidney pudding...
...MICHAEL & SIR GEORGE by J. B. Priestley. 244 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
Britain's J. B. Priestley writes rather more than the average man talks. In the past 44 years he has published 37 plays, 29 volumes of nonfiction and 22 novels. His worst novels read as easy as a rug unrolls, and his best novels (Angel Pavement, The Good Companions) sound like Dickens updated and not too much marked down. Now 71, Priestley gives no evidence of deceleration-in recent months he has published two new novels in the U.S. Lost Empires is a warm, rowdy, old-fashioned tale about the vaudeville circuits in Britain half a century...