NONE BUT THE LONELY HEARTRichard Llewellyn Macmillan ($2.75).
How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn's richly human first novel about a Welsh mining family, sold over 375,000 copies in the U.S. The movie made from it was voted the best picture of 1941. None But the Lonely Heart is utterly unlike that first success. It is a stream-of consciousness novel about two feverish weeks in the life of a 19-year-old London cockney. It was written while Llewellyn was serving in the British Army in Africa.
But the novel has nothing to do with the war. The action occurs in the mid-1930s, though the...
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