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Follow Me Down, by Shelby Foote. How a God-fearing Mississippi farmer is seized by temptation and driven to mūrder; a taut little novel of crime & passion (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

Author Loughlin's first novel, Helix, was a highly original sea story about engine-room hands (TIME, June 9, 1947). A Private Stair sails into deeper fictional water and for most of the passage keeps way on. The writing is taut, perhaps too spare to make DeCarlo's sudden switch entirely credible, and sometimes there is a smart-alecky playing with words and dialogue. But Loughlin has the good novelist's knack of suggesting more than he says and keeping his story moving with an air of inevitability. He is one young writer who owes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sailor at Sea | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

Follow Me Down, by Shelby Foote. How a God-fearing Mississippi farmer is seized by temptation and driven to murder; a taut little novel of crime & passion. (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Aug. 21, 1950 | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

Follow Me Down, by Shelby Foote. How a God-fearing Mississippi farmer is seized by temptation and driven to murder; a taut little novel of crime & passion (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Aug. 14, 1950 | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Follow Me Down, by Shelby Foote. How a God-fearing Mississippi farmer is seized by temptation and driven to murder; a taut little novel of crime & passion (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Aug. 7, 1950 | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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