Word: wickenden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WALK LIKE A MORTAL-Don Wickenden-Morrow...
Twenty-seven-year-old Dan Wickenden tells this story with the calm abundance, accomplishment and promise of one kind of natural-born writer. He tells it so well that his work bids for serious as well as genial examination...
...with absolute statement. Walk Like a Mortal, engaging though it is, cannot and wisely does not try to lay claim to either. Its perceptions are safe and uncritical. It is nicely written: yet it would be hard to find a definitive sentence in it. In appraisal of talented Dan Wickenden it is instructive to recall another book by and about another young man; James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (see p. 86). Joyce could never have written Walk Like a Mortal: even as a young man, he understood too much...