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...aspires toward but cannot reach is a more status-bearing life. He writes a play and it is a dud. He enters advertising and discovers he is no good at it. His only true emotion is self-pity; his agony is that he must endure all the chic, swinging, semihighbrow parties before one of the nubile feathery birds will sing for him. A brisk, no-nonsense sort of novelist, Glanville catches wonderfully the spiv tone of conversation in swinging London. As a study in frustration, The Artist Type succeeds in making the reader sad for the hero, but not nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Study in Frustration | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

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