Word: sansom
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...been blitzed, and Anna Kavan's Face of My People, a pathos-laden account of a neurotic veteran's resistance to psychoanalytical probing ("They've taken everything; let them not take my silence") are good, solid if not world-shaking stories. Also worth watching is William Sansom, who can't yet create characters but who has a captivating way with machinery...
...riding's 29,000 registered voters had a choice of heroes. Gregg was a V.C. winner in World War I, a brigadier in War II. The Tory candidate, Ernest William Sansom, was a War II lieutenant general. The CCF candidate, 24-year-old Douglas MacMurray Young, a student at the University of New Brunswick, was a War II R.C.A.F. corporal...
Three (191 pp.)-William Sansom-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...William Sansom is one of the morning stars among younger English prose writers. He has a gift for magic glitter that at times approaches that of one of his current literary enthusiasms, the young Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (TIME, Dec. 2). He also has the more durable gold of an original imagination. When both are kept in hand, he can write a story with all the finely selected observation (though not the humanity) of Flaubert. The Cleaner's Story, first in this book, is like that...
...William Sansom, 35, wrote these stories while serving as an air-raid fireman in London during the war. His Westminster in War, a carefully documented record of what the blitzes did to the city, will be published in England next month. Sansom looks like an Oxford oarsman and lives in a decayed house in northwest London where he is now working "only when I feel like it" on a book of short stories about Corsica...