Word: schusfer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CALIFORNIA STREET, by Niven Busch (377 pp.; Simon & Schusfer; $4.50), suggests that a subject too long neglected by writers' conferences is epigraphman-ship. Nothing subdues a reader more thoroughly than a cowcatcher of another author's prose or poetry, bolted to the front of a book or chapter. And no novelist now working is better equipped to conduct a seminar on the technique than Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch. His current novel, about a moneyed San Francisco clan, has ten epigraphs-one at the beginning of each chapter. A Latin proverb assures doubters that the author...
COMRADE VENKA (246 pp.)-Pavel Nil in-Simon & Schusfer...
...SECRET (249 pp.)- -Alba de Céspedes-Simon & Schusfer...
COCKTAIL TIME (2 1 9 pp.)- P. G. Wodehouse-Simon & Schusfer...
...THOUSAND THINGS (244 pp.) -Maria Dermoûf-Simon & Schusfer...