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Streaked with Promise
Fadiman, Clifton P. | November 7, 1928 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Storming Heaven," by Ralph Fox. When "Storming Heaven" made its first appearance in England a critic said, "Mr. Fox's book makes the world more interesting." That is a fine, simple, and true statement, for here is a surprisingly vital novel, frontier-enlarging and streaked gloriously with promise. A story about a youth, it is itself youthful, in the older, decaying meaning of the word, that is, it is fresh, energetic, grave, and romantic. It is possible to read "Storming Heaven" quickly, for its merely entertaining qualities. From this point of view it becomes an adventure story of Soviet Russia with a wild, untutored American lad as the unconvincing, if pleasant, protagonist.

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STORMING Heaven (Book); BOOKS; FOX, Ralph; AUTHORS; YOUTH; ADVENTURE & adventurers
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