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...Myron Brinig - Farrar & Rinehart {$3). Minneapolis-born Author Brinig has published 14 novels in the past 15 years (including Singermann, The Sisters, May Flavin). His new novel sug gests that he may be suffering from over production. You and I's 474 pages follow New Mexico-born Claire and Eric from childhood to marriage, taking in half the cities of Europe...
...human had passed from the earth, a single sunlit raindrop falling on this depopulated planet would hold her for a second in its gleam, remembering her form and mind and strength that had once been here, in one small corner of the globe." Thus, with characteristic bathos, Author Brinig (Singermann, The Sisters) sums up the heroine of his eighth novel, an urban version of Edna Ferber's So Big, written in a style as choked as the author's emotions...
LAST year Myron Brinig published "Singermann", acclaimed by the late Arnold Bennett as one of the most important American novels of the year. In "Wide Open Town", Mr. Brinig returns to the same setting: a copper mining camp, sprawled over a hill in western Montana, with a population of fifty thousand people, most of them alien...
...Wide Open Town" is disappointing. It does not nearly approach the gusto and vigor of his former work. Rather, it strikes one as being a carbon copy, slightly blurred at the edges, of "Singermann." The failure this time of the author to portray this particular phase of the American scene is primarily due of the American scene is primarily due to the besetting sin of his reliance on "local color." Mr. Brinig has grown up in the city he pictures, he knows its legends and its individuality at first hand--and he had done nothing more than photograph them...
...failed miserably in his exposition. It is doubly regrettable when when one considers the undeniable beauty of his writing, the gusto and frankness of it. It is to be hoped that he will bring to his next novel a new setting and the same quality of expression which characterized "Singermann." "Wide Open Town" is a definite retrogression...
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