Word: janeway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DAISY KENYON-Elizabeth Janeway -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). The men & women of today's glossy fiction lead jumpy, exciting lives. They carry out hush-hush Government missions and make big money as writers and artists. They drink lots of highballs, chain-smoke, worry about themselves and talk to each other in subtle banalities to cover their emotional high tension. They love with anxious violence-usually two people at the same time, until the last chapter. And mostly they are terribly good, terribly sensitive but terribly confused...
Elizabeth Janeway, whose first novel, The Walsh Girls, was a best-seller in 1943, has made Daisy Kenyan out of these fascinatingly unhappy people and their jittery world of New York, Washington, Connecticut, and Nantucket. At 32, Daisy is a beautiful, successful, emancipated magazine illustrator. For eight years her lover has been shrewd, rugged Dan O'Mara. Then she meets and marries high-strung magazine editor Peter Lapham...
...women) and writers with one or two books already published who switched from the remainder lists to the best-seller lists. Among the former were: Betty Smith, whose A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ($2.75) sold 460,000 copies in four months, Ilka Chase (In Bed We Cry, $2.50), Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls, $2.50), Helen Howe (The Whole Heart, $2.50), Allan Seager (Equinox, $2.75). Notable among the second group were Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, $3) and Christine Weston, who with two unknown novels to her all but unknown literary credit, turned out Indigo ($2.50), which reviewers compared with...
Readers of The Walsh Girls may feel that Mrs. Janeway does not know it. A careful, detached work of fine craftsmanship, The Walsh Girls is a story of U.S. small-town life in the dreary '30s, with a glance over the shoulder at Europe. The book is unique among U.S. first novels in that it is strictly a novel of character. So carefully does the author outline each feature in her pictures of Helen, George and Lydia that the book takes on the quality of a preserved family parlor with portraits by Sargent on the walls...
...suffers from the same bleak self-minimization that wounds the characters in the story and the town they live in, and the country of which it is part. Just as Lydia seems doomed to regard her life as dreary even when plainly it is not, so Author Janeway ruthlessly stamps out excitement and unexpected humor, like Miss Lydia keeping order in her classroom. She also stamps out any intimation that her characters are important people whose lives, even if they do not value them themselves, are of human significance. Readers may also feel that in emphasizing the faded Main Street...