Waters, Frank - The New York Times Book Review (review date 29 June 1930)
The New York Times Book Review (review date 29 June 1930)
SOURCE: A review of Fever Pitch, in The New York Times Book Review, June 29, 1930, pp. 6-7.
[In the following review, the critic describes the plot and characters of Fever Pitch and praises Waters's depiction of arduous desert travel.]
Fever Pitch can loosely be termed a story of action, yet one cannot limit it by that classification, for it includes a great deal of characterization, and action here means the steady progress toward a fixed goal rather than the succession of adventures we usually associate with that term.
We learn from Arvilla, a dancing girl in a Mexican town on the edge of the desert, that there exists within the desert a land called the Land of the Lizard Woman. This land consists of what rocks and sands were left after the rest of the world was made, and was given to the Lizard Woman by God to keep forever as her own. Here,...
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