Word: bromfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TWENTY-FOUR HOURS-Louis Bromfield-Stokes...
...Author Bromfield manipulates the interweaving skeins of his narrative with skill, never gets inextricably tangled up. His style is thin and without distinction but he tells a good story. Perhaps because of his poverty of style you never feel more emotionally concerned for any of his people than if you had met them in the flesh at a dinner party so viciously dull as old Hector...
...Louis Bromfield, novelist (The Green Bay Tree, Pulitzer Prize-winning Early Autumn), with his wife, two children, maid and a visiting Englishman, went to California to write for the audible cinema. Said he: "There is intelligence and talent gathering in Hollywood as it never gathered there before. It is most hopeful, most interesting. . . . I am fed up with Europe. It gives me a stomachache. I got tired of it, bored with...