Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great year for Texas. After an ill-tempered clouting of its manners & morals by Edna Ferber in her bestselling Giant, the state produced three of the most widely talked-about books of the year: Madison Cooper's Sironia, Texas, a 1,731-page Texas-town saga which seemed to prove that Ferber's view had been right in the first place; Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country, singing Lea's love of his Rio Grande country, north & south of the border; and The Devil Rides Outside, by Texan John Griffin, in which a young American finds...
This is one of those family saga novels, the kind that well-up in authors every so often and cannot be repressed. John Steinbeck in this book traces his forebears through 602 pages and, being a skillful novelist, does it well, but in the end the reader wonders "Was it worth all the effort?" The answer here...
...Rinehart for the first time in 36 years. We spent much of the time together, for we were the only ones in sight from Table 6. We went together to a little impromptus dinner of the Class of 1990. There several stories were told as contributions to the Rinehart saga. I think it was Arthur Drinkwater, out devoted Class Secretary, who told of a life being saved somewhere abroad (I think it was Cairo) by calling the magic words from a window. Also, of a man, broke in New York's Grand Central, being enabled to take his train...
Gentlemen & Sluts. East of Eden is a 250,000-word whopper that slowly spreads from the Civil War to World War I. In form it is a two-family saga (with a double Cain & Abel theme) in which the family destinies brush each other so slightly as to make East of Eden two novels between the same set of boards. Adam Trask, the hero of one of the novels, was born in Connecticut in 1862. He did not reach California and meet the Hamiltons (Steinbeck's folks) until 1900, but he already had quite a story...
Author Guthrie's novel is an epic saga of the hardy men who discovered a wilderness before the covered wagon came. The picture cuts down the novel's size and scope and tones down its realism, imposing a happy ending on the tragic love story of Boone and Teal Eye. But. for all its hemmed-in dramatic horizons, The Big Sky frequently has an easy naturalism, as if the camera and sound track were eavesdropping on the actors. Credit goes to Director Howard (Red River) Hawks...