Waters, Frank - Burton Rascoe (review date 13 June 1942)
Burton Rascoe (review date 13 June 1942)
SOURCE: "Two Worlds in Conflict," in The Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. 25, No. 24, June 13, 1942, p. 9.
[Rascoe was an American literary critic who served on the staff of several influential periodicals during the early and mid-twentieth century. Noted for his perceptiveness in recognizing new or obscure talent, Rascoe was, at one time or another during his career, the chief literary critic of such publications as The Chicago Tribune, The New York Herald Tribune Books, Bookman, Esquire, Newsweek, and American Mercury. In this review, he offers high praise for The Man Who Killed the Deer.]
[The Man Who Killed the Deer] is by far the finest novel of American Indian life I have ever read, not excepting the notable Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge; but a reviewer, anxious to bring to the attention of a large audience a novel he believes to be of high merit, hesitates to...
[The entire page is 1134 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
