Word: valorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was quite a buildup you gave Mr. Jackson in reference to his latest book, The Fall of Valor (TIME, Oct. 7). Shame...
...biggest hypocrite alive" for his chain's campaign against so-called smutty literature, in view of the sexsational stories and headlines featured by his papers. Isenstadt believes that the next target of Mr. Hearst and the censors will be Charles Jackson's study of homosexuality, "The Fall of Valor." The novel is prominently displayed in the ULBE and will so continue, says Mr. I, despite Hearst's "nasty campaign...
...FALL OF VALOR (310 pp.)-Charles Jackson-Rinehart...
...Jackson's first novel, The Lost Weekend, was the story of five days in the life of a lost soul, Don Birnam, a confirmed and hopeless alcoholic unable to save himself or see any way to be saved. It was a study in acknowledged disorder. The Fall of Valor, Jackson's second book, is a study in the revelation of disorder. The story follows a conventionally successful man, John Grandin, through the crucial weeks of his life, when his long-growing sense that something is wrong gives way to the shock of realizing that he is a homosexual...
...theme that even the brashest of moviemakers will rush to handle, and readers who found Don Birnam a sympathetic figure are not likely to have any such fellow feeling for John Grandin. Many readers who got a wallop out of Weekend will have to judge Valor on its literary merit alone, and they will find it medium-to-poor...