Word: sansom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FACE OF INNOCENCE (253 pp.]-William Sansom - Harcourt, Brace...
Anyone expecting a crime of passion at this point reckons without the glacial restraint of modern British novelists. Author William Sansom muzzles the tiger in the blood in order to muster a conversational mouse in the drawing room. In The Face of Innocence, the crisp, angled light of his prose gives the mouse an exaggerated shadow. So does his main theme: that things are rarely what they seem...
This comparatively happy ending seems more likable than likely. But then, Novelist Sansom's aromatic dish of climate and characters has not been cooked on the fierce front burner of profound truths anyway...
...best thing about The Young May Moon is that Novelist Newby, like fellow English Novelists Henry Green and William Sansom, writes about his people with fraternal warmth and no condescension. Unlike those "proletarian" and naturalist novelists who are so shaken with mission that they make their workers or sharecroppers into faceless morons, Newby knows that a truck driver can be a man of sensitivity and a baker a man of imagination...