Books: Proud Peculiar Peanut

Proud Peculiar Peanut

WEDDING SONG—David Burnham—Vi-king ($2.50). If Ernest Hemingway should read this book he would be less flattered than embarrassed. Apparently with no intent of parodying his master's manner, Author Burnham has succeeded all too well. Though doubtless meant to hoist the standard higher, Wedding Song blows the gaff on the whole Spartan-boy-&-fox school of understatement. Kit has never forgiven his father, U. S. Tycoon Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice,...

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