SOURCE: A review of The World Above, in The Canadian Forum, Vol. XXXI, No. 367, August, 1951, pp. 115-16.

In the following mixed review of The World Above, Envers lauds Polonsky's descriptive capabilities but finds the novel stylistically inconsistent.

If Mr. Polonsky has not written a best seller this time, it can hardly be ascribed to want of talent but rather to lack of economy and care. The World Above struck this reviewer like a badly edited manuscript, not quite ready for typesetting. The book has divergencies of style ("he didn't" and "he did not," both within the short space of a few lines; the exclamation "Agh!", so frequent during early passages, later turns into a humble "Ah!"); an occasional spelling error; faults in minor detail, which might easily irritate a reader acquainted with particular circumstances (an Englishwoman would never refer to an officer in the British Women's Force as...