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Word: ricochetted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green ($2).* No proletarian, no Communist, nobody has yet written a first-class proletarian novel. Nearest so far is John Dos Passos' The 42nd Parallel. Nobody Starves starts out as though it might ring a new bull's-eye but it turns out to be just another ricochet. Though proletarian authors and capitalist critics would never agree on what makes a good novel, even a proletarian would want a novel to be more than a case history. Nobody Starves is a painstaking, truthful-sounding case history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Depression | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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