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Dark-brown Tragedy
Nuhn, Ferner | September 26, 1934 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Now in November," by Josephine Johnson. For some reason the first object of many beginning writers at the moment seems to be style, and particularly if the writer is feminine, the fashion seems to require a sort of drugged running lilt that never takes a breath. Johnson, apparently, borrows the prolonged accent of Irish keening to tell a story of mortgages, drought, and agricultural disparity, not to mention fire, insanity, and suicide on a Missouri farm. It is too bad that style wags the story, for beneath the unflagging dark-brown manner can be discerned the faint outlines of real substance.

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NOW in November (Book); BOOKS; JOHNSON, Josephine; AUTHORS; AGRICULTURE; DROUGHTS
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