Books: Cuba Libre

MAN WANTS BUT LITTLE—Wilson Wright—Boni ($2). This novel about present-day Cuba treads delicately among the thorny implications of Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English...

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