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Today's fiction may be corrupting the morals of youth-but not for the reason most people think. It is not the sex, says Novelist J. B. Priestley in the New Statesman and Nation, it's the sadism...
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...something of a hero. The trend seems transatlantic. In the past year Britain's Nigel Balchin published Private Interests and in 1952 the U.S.'s Cameron Hawley contributed Executive Suite. Fresh bows to the businessman are now made by Britain's Socialist Novelist J. B. Priestley in The Magicians and the U.S.'s Republican Novelist Howard Swiggett in The Power and the Prize. Priestley's book is suave, but wanders off into drawing-room speculation; Swig-gett's novel is crude, though closer to boardroom politics...
...reappear here for a spell). Outfitted with a new set of values, Ravenstreet breaks with Lord Mervil and wins the forgiveness of his erstwhile mistress on her deathbed. Ravenstreet is eager to thank the three "magicians" for everything, but they have vanished into the thin upper air of Author Priestley's somewhat pixilated imagination. A deft master of pace, Priestley keeps his story interesting, long after all its preposterous plot lines have become tangents...
Married. John Boynton Priestley, 58, popular novelist (The Good Companions, Festival) and playwright (Home Is Tomorrow) ; and Author-Archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes, 42 (A Land), lately his playwriting collaborator; he for the third time, she for the second; in London...