Volume 17, Number 9 · December 2, 1971
Life Sentence
By Denis Donoghue
Meet Me in the Green Glen
by Robert Penn Warren
Random House, 259 pp., $7.95
The Condor Passes
by Shirley Ann Grau
Knopf, 421 pp., $7.95
Edsel
by Karl Shapiro
Bernard Geis Associates, 308 pp., $6.95
Several years ago, Robert Penn Warren offered a recollection of his short story 'Blackberry Winter,' describing how he wrote it and what he had hoped to do. It was, among his stories, almost a work of pure imagination, certainly not a transcription of fact. Of his characters in the story Mr. Warren said, 'I never knew these particular people, only that world and people like them.' But he remarked of his novels that they started 'from some objective situation or episode, observed or read about, something that caught my eye and imagination so that feeling and interpretation began to flow in.' He did not say anything further about the relation between episode and feeling.
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