MORE IN ANGER

by Marya Mannes ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Another lambast has been added to the literature on American complaisance. The American national character suffers from a kind of spiritual leukemia etiologically accounted for by our immersion in a horn of plenty, our low-grade mass media, the degeneration of sexual and cultural values and an overall lack of interest in important things. Miss Mannes, a modern suffragette, laches ""painful examinations"" and ""impudent swipes"" at just about everything under the American sun. She smirks at the abundance of the half-people (those who spend too much time in cars); the emphasis and premium on youth; the concern with weight; television interviews; columnists; art faddists; political immaturity; the DAR; the bohemian. Through literary sketches, stereotypes, dialogues and commentary she cooks a resentful potpourri in which the common denominator of Americans is hate and fear. Self-righteous in her rambled pronunciamento, the author of Message from a Stranger may entice a few female readers.

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Publisher: Lippincott

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1958

Categories: NONFICTION