THE BEAUTIES AND FURIESChristina SteadAppleton-Century ($2.50).
"Men of genius ruin themselves for some fantasy, or for their families, that's why there are so few that succeed. There are really hundreds of thousands of men of genius in the world." This minority opinion is delivered not by Author Christina Stead herself but by one of her characters; but she writes as if it were true. The Beauties and Furies, like her earlier books (The Salzburg Tales, Seven Poor Men of Sydney) is something rich and strange, bears the same relation to workaday life as...
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