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...longshoremen--a consolidated mass of humanity, steel and stone. The book is arranged on the thin theme of a 24 hour period and attempts to follow representative types through their daily trials, labors and joys. The book is New York and thus will present a different face to every reader cold and mechanical to him who is a stranger, a vibrant, breathing, fascinating pageant to him who knows and loves this city. As a Christmas present it provides an easy answer to any problematic cases. It will be well-thumbed on glass-topped tables in penthouse apartments, in cozy, warm...
...pure Stein. A gallery of word-portraits of Stein friends and acquaintances, it is mostly concerned with literary and artistic figures: Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Van Vechten (to whom the book is dedicated), Sherwood Anderson, Jo Davidson, Edith Sitwell et al. Persevering readers may puzzle long to discover whether these portraits are flattering or otherwise; presumably they are as objective as Author Stein can make them. The reader who wins to p. 105 will discover a portrait of one Harriet which is egregiously clear. Some of it: "She said she did not have...
Author Stein says her words are to be taken in their literal sense, says they make sense. Unfortunately for the reader, however, as she herself says: "No one sees the connection between Lily and Louise...
...nobody came to disturb you, as though no one but yourself were left in the world. And then suppose that one day you discovered that you were not quite alone after all, that somebody else was in the store too. These are the presumptions Author Cozzens makes the reader swallow. Once they are accepted, the rest of the circumstantial tale follows as nightmare the daydream. Able Author Cozzens always takes a leaf out of some good notebook. This time it is from Edgar Allan Poe's, Ambrose Bierce's, Daniel Defoe...
...certain point, Author Cozzens unfalteringly directs a tale that might turn comic if he did not keep it rigid with suspense. What that point is the heavily-breathing reader will find out for himself...