Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humor does not come off. Furthermore, the flashbacks to the girls' life at St. Agatha's stand as the best parts of the book--not because the experiences seem more attractive but merely because the writing is better. Although the uneven quality of storytelling inadvertently reinforces the theme by making the present less interesting than the past, it seems hardly the best way to make a point...
...spite of its hackneyed theme and its essentially unoriginal main character, Short Pleasures manages to be an entertaining book. Miss Bernay's breezy, racy style and several of her other character portrayals suggest that she is capable of writing a much better book than the framework of Short Pleasures permits...
Chandler's "Nightshade" contrasts a woman, who lives in a world of "bright flowers and effervescent dreams," with the speaker, a night-person whose world is associated with the subway. This theme has possibilities; certainly the eerie and depressing nature of a 3 A.M. subway ride offers fertile material for the perceptive poet. Yet Chandler's images, completely unimaginative, merely roam between the prosaic ("The city is lonely after midnight") and the ludicrous ("There are flowers in the city of the moon: painted in faded colors on the subway walls...
This simple lyric, laminated to a catching tune, is on Billboard's list of the "Hot 100" singles, comfortably ahead of Tell Me Baby and catching up with Young and in Love. What it is doing in that league is anybody's guess. Its theme is not love, but development housing...
Such a man is the hero of this somber and remorseless first novel. As an examination of the theme, it can stand with the works of Camus, by whom it was inspired and to whom it is dedicated...