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FIRE, by George R. Stewart; Victor Gollancz. English price, 10/6. EORGE R. STEWART’S earlier writing has been compared with the works of Aldous Huxley, Wells and Orwell. This new novel should allow him to stand up on his own, It is beautifully written and composed of the simplest of elements, Its setting, the Ponderosa National Forest in California, is probably larger in area than all of New Zealand. The hero of the story is fire. Few heroes have received such adequate characterisation from their authors in recent years. In some respects the book may tend to resemble the conventions of the spectacle as outlined by Hollywood. The human interest is somewhat incidental against the roaring forces of nature, but the author manages to catch up the reader and involve him in the fire with some of the best descriptive writing since Conrad, another lover of
the elemental.
Louis
Johnson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 15
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151BIG BLAZE New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 15
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