Word: sylvia
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...article "The Means & the End," anyone who has not spent a day working in a thrift shop (as I have spent many, being affiliated with the Lots for Little Thrift Shop in New York City) has no right to so uncharitably criticize Sylvia McDaniel's "trade secrets." After all, in order to be truly charitable, one must act with prudence...
Incense to Idols, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Proving that the power and insight of her first novel, Spinster, sprang from an exceptional talent rather than from mere autobiographical circumstance, the New Zealand schoolteacher dazzlingly describes an amoral and shatteringly beautiful pianist for whom men-except for an unbending, God-obsessed minister -queue up to destroy themselves...
Incense to Idols, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. In this impressive second novel by the author of Spinster, an amoral and witchingly lovely woman spins a treacherous human web, in which men snared by beauty must ultimately confront God, death and salvation...
INCENSE TO IDOLS (312 pp.)-Sylvia Ashman-Warner-Simon & Schuster...
...excellent novel is just that: two of them by the same author form strong evidence that the world has another fine writer. Sylvia Ashton-Warner's first novel. Spinster, astonished critics last year with its power, insight, and. to use a phrase of her own, pride of word. The only reservation tenable was that since the author, a middle-aged New Zealand schoolteacher, had written of a middle-aged woman who taught school, it was possible that the force of her novel sprang from circumstance, not art. Incense to Idols removes this possibility...