ATLANTIC CITY CANTATA

by Hugh Chiholm ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 21, 1951

By the author of this long dramatic poem sings, blares, and jangles way to and from a dynamic center of crowd movement. This is set in Atlantic City where ""the weather in better than best"", against the come-on of the huckster, the tired silly loneliness of the matron, the politico-sexual dimension of the business men, the he man brutality of the young men. And the innocence of young love and its gentle perception of eternals, the harsh judgements of the flagpole sitter, symbol of a precarious detachment, cries out against the hollowness, the cheapness and the tragedy of the American made mass mind. Visceral, disturbing, exciting.

Pub Date: June 21, 1951

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Young

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1951

Categories: NONFICTION