Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given them warning. In Herself Surprised (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948), the first novel of his trilogy, he not only created a fresh and startling heroine in the person of lusty, busty Sara Monday but also planned her amoral meanderings so dexterously that no one could ever guess what quirk or crazy character would show up just around the next corner. In Novel No. 2, To Be a Pilgrim (TIME, April 18), Sara played second fiddle to her sugar daddy, wealthy old Tom Wilcher, who not only gave his version of life with Sara but carried their joint stories a stage...