Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...KINGS Row - Henry Bellamann -Simon & Schusfer...
...buggy days has long awaited a novelist who could see it steadily and whole. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, for all its savor, its dusty truth, was only a bucketful of that subject. Authentic handfuls may be found in Booth Tarkington, Willa Gather, Edgar Lee Masters. Kings Row, an intelligent attempt to cover the whole ground, is worthy of respect and worth reading, but it is not the hoped-for article...
...onetime dean of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, he writes with a composer's power of conception, a doctoral insipidity of style. In his long (674-page) chronicle he deals boldly, methodically with the social rigidities, dignities and horrors of life in the town of Kings Row at the turn of the century. The pattern is complete; the vision is undistinguished...
...named Parris Mitchell, brought up by his well-to-do French grandmother, senses the snobbery of Kings Row when he sees his schoolmates snub the birthday party of Cassandra Tower, whose strange, brilliant father remains aloof from the town. Later Parris goes to study medicine with Dr. Tower, carries on an affair with neurotic, beautiful Cassandra. The evil of the world smites Parris suddenly in one week when his beloved grandmother dies of cancer, his revered teacher Dr. Tower poisons Cassandra and kills himself. A notebook of Dr. Tower's intimates that he had been more than a father...
...more accuracy than sales figures alone could provide. Dr. George ("Percentage") Gallup is sending out the book as subject for one of the Gallup polls. A selected cross section of readers will report to Dr. Gallup on such questions as what they like, dislike, and would recommend about Kings Row, how it compares in their esteem with such stemwinders as Gone With the Wind...