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mechanized lovelessness repay him in full. For what is his rather nasty
and supererogatory cruelty toward his own characters but the issue of
lace-curtain bumptiousness and the sign of an inability to reach the love
he would always like to summon, the love Fitzgerald
could
summon?
Tricked, tricked by his own devices. Of course, there is still Grace
T ate with her renowned appetites, the one character O'Hara seems
really to like with the slightly guilty admiration of the American male for
the woman of endurance. But then, as even O'Hara's book indicates,
Grace Tate doesn't seem to have much fun either ; she may rage but she
doesn't live.
George Weller's political novel is one of those revolving-stage af–
fairs in which several sets of characters are repeatedly brought to the
foreground and finally thrown together in an improvised climax, in
this instance, the splitting of Greece by civil war. The trouble with such
novels is that they are usually tripped by the very problem in technique
they set out to avoid: how, in the absence of plot, to include a multi–
plicity of actions and scenes and yet preserve structural unity. Usually
this problem can be solved only through a strong central character or
commanding idea, at the flanks of which the novel's parts fall into order.
WHAT'S BLACK
&
WHITE
&
READ ALL OVER?*
GREEN, Henry LOVING
3.00
KOESTLER, Arthur PROMISE
&
FULFILMENT
Palestine 1917-1949
4.00
WELTY, Eudora GOLDEN APPLES
3.00
BOWRA, C. M. THE ROMANTIC IMAGINATION
4.50
STENDHAL. MEMOIRS OF EGOTISM. From his journal 3.00
CONNOLLY, Cyril THE ROCK POOL
1.50
McCULLERS, Carson REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE 1.50
JAMES, HENRY
OOMPLETE PLAYS,
ill
us.
10.00
GOETHE. CONVERSATIONS WITH ECKERMAN
1.45
GIDE, Andre FRUITS OF THE EARTH
3.00
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