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Word: rivermark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Novelist Aswell's heroine, Rowdy, is rich, sweet, 17, and belongs to the want-to-be-lost generation. She is engaged to a handsome home-town boy (Rivermark, La.) who sells insurance and is as safe and sane as the Fourth of July without firecrackers. When he introduces her to a poetry-quoting New Orleans gambler, Randy Blane, Rowdy feels the "dark downbeat witchery" of the man melting her engagement ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soup Opera | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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