Morris, Wright - Louis O. Coxe (essay date 1954)

Louis O. Coxe (essay date 1954)

SOURCE: A review of The Huge Season, in Partisan Review, Vol. XXI, No. 6, November-December, 1954, pp. 690-91.

[In the following review, Coxe argues The Huge Season is a failure.]

Mr. Morris' new novel begins auspiciously with a strong evocation of atmosphere and a promise of exciting events to come. The reader feels that here is a real attempt to explore the secret, the power, of those fabulous men of the '20s he has read and heard so much about. One of the first pictures Mr. Morris limns is the shadowy one of a figure before a Congressional investigating committee, a figure who will become, one is made to feel sure, of crucial importance. One cannot help asking Who is he? was he a Communist? why? what has happened in the past that must work itself out thus and set this man before us with the TV cameras on him? I for one found that though Mr. Morris raised these questions and many others like...

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