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IRISH NOVELIST'S POWERFUL 1941 STORY GETS WELL-DESERVED REVIVAL.(Lifestyle)(Review)
From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 20000208
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William Faulkner and E.M. Forster admired his work, and Anthony Burgess argued that he was one of modernism's neglected geniuses. Nonetheless, the Dublin-born novelist James Hanley remains virtually unknown to most readers, out of print for some 60 years. The revival of this powerful and haunting fiction marks the return of a world-class writer.
His 1941 masterwork, ``The Ocean,'' opens on a note of stark understatement. A British freighter, the Aurora, has been torpedoed and sunk in the mid-Atlantic. Six men scramble into a dinghy, and one is immediately cut down by German ...
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