Critical Essay by Richard Match
"Voyage to Somewhere" is the story of Lieutenant Barton and his first command. Some time in May, 1944, Mr. Barton reported to a San Francisco yard to tak...
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Critical Essay by George Steiner
[Mr. Sloan Wilson] is an eminently proper writer with a shrewd eye to the feminine trade and Hollywood. But although his novel is in no way offensive, it is utterly h...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
The sad thing about [A Sense of Values] is that Mr. Wilson, who has talent and at one stage seemed really to care about American society, now writes as...
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Critical Essay by Martin Levin
In the 1920's, all the best people hang out at the Paradise Point Inn, a restricted Lake George hostelry owned by a close-knit association of three families. And...
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Critical Essay by Herbert Gold
["What Shall We Wear to This Party?", the] autobiography of the man who wrote "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," seems to promise some unpr...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
Can sincerity save a badly written book from being dreadful? Sometimes, but not always. [In Small Town], Wilson's obvious earnestness only intensifies the emba...
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Critical Essay by Marc Granetz
The story [of Small Town] is a familiar one and Sloan Wilson … executes it with few surprises. Hewat, who drives a white Lincoln Continental, is the stock local ...
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Critical Essay by Eileen Kennedy
A literate soap opera, ["Small Town"] tells of middle-aged world-famous journalist, Ben Winslow, who wants to launder the gray years through a return to...
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Critical Essay by Marc Leepson
In 1941, before the United States entered the war, the State Department called on the Coast Guard to patrol Greenland's coasts…. Before the war was over, ...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
Following up on the success of "Ice Brothers," Sloan Wilson goes down to the sea again to launch a most commendable thriller ["The Greatest Cr...
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Critical Essay by Bill Ott
[Pacific Interlude] has some of the virtues and many of the vices of traditional war fiction. Examining the invasion of the Philippines from a perspective quite different f...
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Critical Essay by Time
The latest 604-page redundancy by [Sloan Wilson, A Sense of Values,] may … serve a purpose: to stimulate total disenchantment with the disenchantment novel….
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Critical Essay by Thomas E. Cooney
"A Sense of Values" is another handling by Sloan Wilson of the theme of his earlier novel, "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit." Once agai...
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Critical Essay by Richard Match
