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van Doren, Mark | May 1, 1935 issue

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The article focuses on the book entitled "Time Out of Mind." The book is written by Rachel Field. The author remarks that the emotions which this novel is calculated to kindle are within easy reach of the match. Seldom does a novel appear concerning which one can be so positive that it will be, at least on a certain level, successful. This is a novel about a family and this family is going downhill. There have been great days, but that was when vessels sailed the sea. According to the author only the feeblest hand could make such a novel fail, and the hand of Field is far from feeble.

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TIME Out of Mind (Book); FIELD, Rachel; EMOTIONS in literature; CHARACTERS & characteristics in literature; PLOTS (Drama, novel, etc.); STYLE, Literary
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