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Spring 1940 • Vol. II No. 2 • Book Reviews |

Fiction Going and Coming

Night of the Poor by Frederic Prokosch. Harper. $2.50
Tommy Gallagher’s Crusade by James T. Farrell. Vanguard Press. $1.00
The Hospital by Kenneth Fearing. Random House. $2.00

Two of these novels are impressive, but none is quite successful. Kenneth Fearing is a better poet than Frederic Prokosch, but he is not a practiced novelist; Prokosch himself is less successful than he has been; and James Farrell reveals himself to be hardly a novelist at all.

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For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Scribner. $2.75What was for long the sign of Ernest Hemingway’s work—the curious tension between subject matter and style, between the themes of […]

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