Books: Transylvanus

WINNING A WIFE—Peter Neagoe— Coward-McCann ($2.50).

Three years ago a book of short stories by Peter Neagoe, called Storm, was banned by the U. S. Customs on the ground of obscenity. Last year his first novel, Easter Sun, got a good hand from critics. By last week Author Neagoe was better known in the U. S. than most of his Rumanian compatriots. Earthy but not obscure, Peter Neagoe writes of barnyard happenings but not with the leer of the city-dweller. A Transylvanian Sylvanus, he tells with country gusto the chronicles of his sly, lustful,...

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