Wright Morris has done it again - that is, he has written a fine,
complex interesting novel which, like his others, should get
important critical attention and probably small sales. He takes
seven tourists in Mexico to a bull fight; Walter Mckee of Nebraska
and his wife Lois; their 7-year-old grandson; Lois' father,
Scanlon, 87; Gordon Boyd, a childhood friend of McKee's; Dr.
Leopold Lehmann, a pseudo-psychiatrist, and Mrs. Paula Kahler, a
patient of his. By the time the afternoon is over Morris has told
us a great deal about each of these people and about the past,
present, and possible future of America and the world. The
shuttling back and forth in time and place, and the interweaving of
symbolism from one episode to another is a fascinating virtuoso
performance. Boyd, a hero manque, is the catalyst who has brought
this group together and who, with his wild streak, shakes them up
so that all are changed in some way. The stories of old Scanlon,
Dr. Lehmann, and McKee are exceptionally good, Lois McKee's is
rather slim and spun out, and (most unfortunately since it is most
important) Boyd's does not build as it should to bring the whole
thing off. Nevertheless, the intellectual power of the book, and
the emotional involvement in parts, as well as the general high
quality of the writing make it a fascinating novel though not a
complete sucess. (Kirkus Reviews)
Winner of the National Book Award "Wright Morris seems to me the
most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through
a large body of work --which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the
wide attention it deserves--Mr. Morris has adhered to standards
which we have come to identify as those of the most serious
literary art. His novel The Field of Vision brilliantly climaxes
his most richly creative period. It is a work of permanent
significance and relevance to those who cannot be content with less
than a full effort to cope with the symbolic possibilities of the
human condition at the present time."--John W. Aldridge One of
America's most distinguished authors, Wright Morris (1910-1988)
wrote thirty-three books.
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