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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MERRY PARTNERS (302 pp.)-E J Kahn Jr.-Random House...
Hungry Seagulls. Hirshhorn's random net inevitably scoops up many second-rate paintings, but it also snares some splendid ones. Among his finest recent purchases is Philip Evergood's American Shrimp Girl (opposite). One of the most versatile draftsmen alive, Evergood took obvious delight in depicting the hungry seagulls that circle the girl's head, and contrasting their eager grace with the girl's heavy-limbed, foursquare pose...
GRANDFATHER STORIES-Samuel Hopkins Adams-Random House...
...FARTHER COUNTRY (182 pp.)-William Goyen-Random House...
...COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, by Warren Eyster (597 pp.; Random House; $4.95), is the slowest-starting melodrama since John Hersey covered umpteen pages before breaching The Wall. To fill his big picture of violence in a strike-torn Pennsylvania steel town, Novelist Warren Eyster starts 50 years back and paints all the ancestors as carefully as the main figures who finally dominate the canvas. Never relenting for so much as a chuckle, Novelist Eyster fastens his eye on personal as well as social change ("Irene had become a better person. She appeared to have learned that sacrifice was not necessarily...