THE HUMAN COMEDY William SaroyanHarcourt, Brace ($2.75).
A lot of people have wondered whether William Saroyan had it in him to write a whole, continuous novel. The Human Comedy, though it inevitably leaves its grandiloquent title looking like a half-inflated blimp, is a very nice novel indeed. It is, unfortunately, too nice to be as good, as it might have been if Saroyan were capable not only of goodness but of a concern with evil.
The Human Comedy is the story of a happy family in a small town in wartime. It is William...
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