WRITE SORROW ON THE EARTH (260 pp.) Charles Christian Wertenbaker Holt ($2.75).
This short, admirable novel about the French Resistance is written in a prose style which suggests that Author Wertenbaker is a refugee from the dictatorship of Ernest Hemingway. But if he ever suffered under that brilliant dictatorship, he is his own master now. He has fashioned an unobstreperous, supple instrument with which he can handle whatever he pleases. With deceptive quietness, he chooses to handle a good deal.
Write Sorrow on the Earth is chiefly the story of three people: an...