" I would like to say about BOSTON ADVENTURE that
it
is the finest first novel
by
an American writer that I have
seen in a long tim·e."
-Philip Rahv
''It's not, of course, tbe sort of novel one paints io quick–
drying critical colors-excellent, exciting, etc. It's the most
serious and most deeply-thought novel I ve read by any
writer of my generation, and my principal i pression is one
of great talent, of grim
inte~rity
and Jame ian density, of
something beautifully conceived but often over-made and
crenellated; so much so that there are parts that seem to me
distinguished - rather ' than good. I have rarely read any
fiction of the present day that seemed to me to display so
much understanding of what the novel is or can be about ;
that in fact revealed,
by
its own texture and d epth and hon–
est cunning, so deep a study of the
novel."-Aifred Kazin
$2.75
BOSTON
ADVENTURE
dEAN
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HARCOURT. BRACE AND COMPANY
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