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...when books are banned it is usually by action of municipal authorities, as Boston's mayor once stopped the sale of Dreiser's American Tragedy, or as the mayor of Omaha, Neb. more recently clamped down on Mari Sandoz' Slogum House. In England books that come under official displeasure are usually withdrawn by the publishers; in European dictatorships their circulation is forbidden by the state. Recent book bans...
...determined by the number of bookstores reporting it as a leading seller; if three bookstores list a title, it appears on the Herald Tribune list. Thus, last fortnight, A. J. Cronin's The Citadel was listed by 65 bookstores, had first place on the list, while Mari Sandoz' novel of pioneer Nebraska, Slogum House, shared last place with three others. The Publishers' Weekly list is based on monthly questionnaires to 200 bookstores, is tabulated by regions and cities...
...Nobel Prize for literature went to the writer of The Thibaults (1 Mari Sandoz, 2 Romain Rolland, 3 Marcel Proust, 4 Sinclair Lewis, 5 Roger Martin du Card...
SLOGUM HOUSE-Mari Sandoz-Little, Brown...
...Slogum House, Mari Sandoz sets herself the gigantic task of making this unnatural mother humanly understandable, is kept from doing so by Gulla Slogum's many crimes, her lack of all familiar human characteristics except greed. An oldfashioned, 400-page chronicle, slow-moving despite its many melodramatic episodes, Slogum House is set against the same brutal Nebraska-pioneer background pictured in Mari Sandoz' Old Jules, which won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Non-Fiction Prize in 1935. That unsparing biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors...