Word: siebel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME BEING (219 pp.)-Julia Siebel-Harcourt, Brace & World...
Kansas-born Novelist Julia Siebel seems intent on becoming the laureate of quiet lives desperately lived. In two novels about her native state, there is an occasional wheat-crop failure, but the yield of domestic unhappiness is as invariable as debt and taxes. In The Narrow Covering (TIME, July 30, 1956), careless and malevolent death bore down on ordinary prairie folk to whom Author Siebel assigned hardly a pleasant, let alone a happy, moment. For the Time Being is relatively upbeat. No one dies. Yet no one lives, either; like a quarter section of Spoon River Anthology, the human crop...
Knowing the cast of Author Siebel's mind, the only real question is: How tough will things get for the Bembroys? But what is apparent throughout...