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...FORTUNATE MAN (376 pp.]-Frank Tilsley-Messner...
...Fortunate Man, English Novelist Frank Tilsley proves that he knows the Jimmy Magnalls of England, at least, down to their last vulgarity and their final weakness. He also creates a picture of lower-class Londoners that jumps and twitches with life. Author Tilsley is no delicate craftsman; England is vastly overstocked with novelists who write silkier books. But compared to Tilsley, most of them seem pale fellows indeed. He has, as an English critic has said, "that uncommon thing, the Common Touch...
...Author Tilsley has more than a dozen novels to his credit, but only one of them, Champion Road (1950), the story of a building promoter, has ever been picked for the export market. U.S. readers who choose British novels for their fine texture will not care for The Fortunate Man; those who like an older and lustier tradition well...
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