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...Bach, who does not exactly take Jonathan's commercial success with clench-jawed seriousness: "The way I figure, just by April 1975, the whole earth will be covered about two feet deep in copies of Jonathan L. Seagull." The question that itches away at all but the most ecstatic readers???and haunts the clever folk in publishing who turned the damned thing down?...
...Dublin in 1901, went to sea at the same age as his hero. 13. In 1916 he joined the army, returning to the sea after the War. Onetime stoker, cook, butcher, clerk, post man. Author Hanley knows the proletariat of which he writes. His writing induces nausea in some readers???Hugh Walpole leading the hue & cry with a public shriek of horror?but causes in others a vehement banner-waving. Among the banner men are Thomas Edward Shaw (Col. Lawrence), Richard Aldington, John Cowper Powys. Laboriously punting upstream Author Hanley owes much of the success of his early efforts...
...acknowledges his debt to Bennett and Wells?but this debt is more evident to him than to his readers???for to me, certainly, Swinnerton's style possesses a freshness which makes it absolutely his own. That we must return to an approximation of the 18th Century novel, the novel of Fielding, is his belief. Any novelist, Mr. Swinnerton holds, to write a really great novel must possess both a sense of humor and an almost overpowering love of mankind...
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