Word: vercel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIDES of MONT ST.-MICHEL-Roger Vercel-Random House...
...Author Vercel's previous four novels published in the U. S. (In Sight of Eden, Captain Conan, Salvage, Lena), the story is told in terse, dramatic style. And, like them, Tides of Mont St.-Michel is about equally good and bad. Good are the descriptions of storms, fogs, quicksands, natural violence; bad, melodramatic are the descriptions of the storms and fogs of human relations...
LENA-Roger Vercel-Random House...
SALVAGE -Roger Vercel - Harper...
Emerging bravely from that shadow is the latest novel by Professor Vercel, whose Captain Conan in 1934 received the Prix Goncourt. Written in lean, brilliant prose, Salvage rises to a sustained pitch of excitement in telling of the rescue of a Greek cargo steamer by the salvage tug Cyclone, fades again when the rescue is completed midway in the book...