BOOKS IN BRIEF
Books In Brief THE DEER ON THE STAIRS, by Louise Field Cooper (Duell,- Sloan and Pearce. $2.50). A light and inconsequential comedy of manners, The Deer, on the Stairs is a carefully and delicately...
...THE PEOPLE FROM HEAVEN, by John Sanford...
...Without the background of the earlier book, it is difficult to get the characters and their relationships straight...
...TAKE NOTHING FOR YOUR JOURNEY, by Ann Steward...
...Majsbe it's the times that makes the book seem precious and expendable...
...Macmillan...
...A light and inconsequential comedy of manners, The Deer, on the Stairs is a carefully and delicately written novel in which Mrs...
...An unusual "novel," almost entirely conversation and some free verse, about a crisis in a small town, revolving around the local doctor, America Smith, a Negress, and Eli Bishop, local Bad Man...
...There is a poetic, unreal quality about the people, but Ann Steward writes with convincing fervor about the land...
...This novel is a sequel to Let the Earth Speak...
...The strange, mystical story concerns the strain among the peculiar legatees of rich farm land, a strain that is not eased until an epileptic has died at peace, a marriage has been broken, and a man with a passion for the soil has worked out his Own philosophy of life...
...Strange stuff...
...Cooper overworks the technique used in her earlier book, The Lighted Box...
...Harcourt, Brace...
Vol. 7 • December 1943 • No. 51
