Books: Happy Ending

THE ROAD LEADS ON—Knut Hamsun— Coward-McCann ($3).

Most writers stop writing long before they reach Knut Hamsun's age (73). But readers who feel nervous about an old man's maunderings need not hesitate to pick up Author Hamsun's latest and perhaps last book. Though The Road Leads On will not unduly excite a world which still remembers his monumental Growth of the Soil (1917), it would be a worthy and happy ending to a great career. Author Hamsun may lay down his pen in the consciousness that he has not overstayed either his...

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