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At the market this morning I bought a copy of Eric Linklater’s The Dark of Summer because the cover looked promising. This edition was published by The Popular Book Club and inside was the newsletter detailing forthcoming books for 1958.
The interesting thing about it is how few of the books and/or authors I’ve heard of. For instance, Patrick Quentin, author of The Man in the Net is described as ‘America’s “number one” in crime fiction’ but he’s completely new to me. I like the sound of The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Henriette Roosenburg, a true story of three Dutch girls, now displaced persons, travelling across Europe after Liberation in 1945. Another future attraction is Ice Cold in Alex by Christopher Landon, with the exciting news that the book is being filmed and ‘one of the very first stills from the studio’. I’ve seen the film several times without realizing it was based on a well known (then) novel. Fascinating stuff, with lurid pictures and lots of offers, all packed into six sides of paper.
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Date: 2011-03-12 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-12 12:37 pm (UTC)Looks very different for that era :-)
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Date: 2011-03-12 01:14 pm (UTC)My mum had several of Patrick Quentin's crime novels and I read them all at one point. They were all right, I suppose, but nothing special.
She also had the Dutch version of the Roosenburg book (part of a whole collection of World War II literature). Out of curiosity I picked it from the shelf one day, and I found it very interesting to read about the experiences of these Nacht und Nebel prisoners, and how they made their way back home. When I had to sort out her books years later, I made sure to keep this one.
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