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Technique Above Comment
Willingam, John R. | June 16, 1956 issue

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The article analyzes several fiction books. The books analyzed are "Lucy Crown," by Irwin Shaw; "The Shadow of My Hand," by Holger Cahill, "A House of Children," by Joyce Carry and "A Contest of Ladies," by William Sansom. If no particularly valuable generalizations about the state of modern fiction arise from the consideration of these books in juxtaposition, the books, taken singly, exemplify a considerable persistence of the technical advance of the 1920's and 30's. American novelists quite understandably get the urge from time to time to write novels of our native soil, to explore the meaning of American experience through something like a "neo-local-color."

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BOOKS; AMERICAN literature; LUCY Crown (Book); SHADOW of My Hand, The (Book); HOUSE of Children, A (Book); CONTEST of Ladies, A (Book)
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