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Five years after U.S. publication, readers in England were snapping up copies of the first British edition of Critic Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County. The New Statesman and Nation's V. S. Pritchett sounded a restrained critical welcome: "It is sustained in brilliance, and if it is a failure, it is a failure of an absorbing, vital, fertilizing kind, and I am glad that an English publisher has, at last, been found after many years to bring it out." As for the lurid passages which had caused the book to be banned in New York...
...reversal of the usual order, but a look at the novels provided at least a partial explanation. The Costains and the Yerbys had their moments, but not the gaudy ones of old, and even the Du Mauriers and the Cronins issued invitations to boredom. British Critic V. S. Pritchett feared that leisure had become so rare and expensive that creative writers no longer had a chance to do good work. But more than a lack of leisure was responsible for the famine: there was a lack of commanding talent among the new writers, and a drop in performance among...
...appears. Worsley, who is also drama critic and chief puzzle-master (under such pseudonyms as "Thomas Smallbones"), leans heavily on a few steadily brilliant contributors: Desmond Shawe-Taylor (music), Patrick Heron (art), G. W. Stonier, who also writes as "William Whitebait," (books, cinema) and topflight Book Critic V. S. Pritchett...
...Pritchett, the best critic in Britain today, has called these and the rest of her pungencies the only really instructive statement on novel writing that he knows. Carpers may feel that she merely tells how to write like Elizabeth Bowen if you have the luck to be Elizabeth Bowen. But even that is something which few writers writing of their craft have managed...
...Plough is the chronicle of its infantrymen's life & death. Published last year in Britain, the book was both a bestseller and a critical success. Some reviewers described it as the All Quiet of World War II; others were reminded of Journey's End. Critic V. S. Pritchett, one of Britain's best, called it simply "the only war book that has conveyed any sense of reality to me." Published now in the U.S., it conveys, unabated, a sense of quiet reality more remarkable than any American World War II writer has yet achieved...