Word: janeway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THIRD CHOICE (333 pp.)-Elizabeth Janeway-Doubleday...
...Speech after long silence, it is right," wrote Yeats in a poem about the gulf between the sexes. Author Janeway's novel deals with the same subject, but unfortunately it consists of speech after long speech. Most of the talk is mournful, and most of it is carried on by women. There are men in the novel, who say "what the hell" quite often, but they are neither very important nor very real. They are the book's furniture, and when one of them stabs himself, the reader is merely baffled, as if a sofa had suddenly stood...
...Author Janeway (The Walsh Girls, Daisy Kenyan) has attempted a novel of pother and passion, and has succeeded only in forcing her story into the mold of cakemix fiction. For those who like store-bought cake, skilled Novelist Janeway has a lot to offer-the smooth batter of dialogue, the raisins of sentiment, and even, here and there, a few nourishing calories of characterization...
...sprouted two critical heads with contradictory views: in the Sunday book magazine, Gene Baro praised "a notable consistency and artistic force," but in a daily review John K. Hutchens decided that Lolita "is not, I think, a distinguished work." In the New York Times Sunday book section Novelist Elizabeth Janeway praised Lolita at length ("One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year"), but in a daily Times review, Orville Prescott contradicted her: "There are two equally serious reasons why it isn't worth any adult reader's attention. The first...
Charles poore, co-editor of the New York Times daily book reviews, Elizabeth Janeway, author of "Daisy Kenyon," and Herbert M. Alexander, editor of Pocket Books, will judge this year's competition...