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...satisfaction; six novels and six nonfiction books passed the 100,000 mark, creating the kind of bookstore traffic that carried along many more modest titles. In fiction, it was a year not of newcomers but of oldtimers. The big sellers were the big names, the reassuringly familiar quantities-Hemingway, Steinbeck, Du Maurier, Keyes, Costain, Ferber...
...Caine Mutiny, first published in March 1951. Never off the bestseller list, and mostly at the top, its sales in all editions reached 1,000,000. The other leaders-Costain, Keyes, Ferber, Du Maurier-moved along predictable roads, leaving their familiar footprints without increasing or diminishing their reputations. John Steinbeck's East of Eden was not predictable, but its loose, woolly yarn on good & evil, featuring a sensational and improbable prostitute, dazzled a lot of readers and critics...
...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk The Silver Chalice, Thomas Costain East of Eden, John Steinbeck Giant, Edna Ferber Steamboat Gothic, Frances Parkinson Keyes My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
...Thomas E. Dew75. The gamy, lurid story of Cathy Trask dominates John Steinbeck's new novel: l. Arrow...
Unbelievable, but through a different cause, is the monster, Cathy Ames. There are, Mr. Steinbeck believes, moral monsters just as there are physically misshapen ones, and Cathy is one of these. She starts, as a young girl, by burning down her home (with her mother and father in it), and ends up owning a whorehouse dedicated to the more violent perversions, abandoning a husband and a brace of twins along the way. Never having met so fiercely evil a person, the reader will have to rely on the author's word, and that at times is insufficient...