The Lying Days Lying Days" in 1953 were generally positive. "New York Times" critic James Stern compared the novel favourably to the works of Alan Paton, especially "Cry, the Beloved Country", describing "The Lying Days" as the better of the two novels. Stern described the novel as less "novel" and more "biography", following the style and form of biographical writing. In a review in the "Fitchburg Sentinel", W. G. Rogers wrote that in "The Lying Days" Gordimer shows that South Africa "is a land not of a single problem, race, but of many problems which that one central issue seems to magnify and
Dearly Beloved (novel) Dearly Beloved (novel) Dearly Beloved is a 1962 novel by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. It takes place during a New England wedding ceremony and consists of the reflections of the wedding guests. The book sold more than 100,000 copies and was on the "New York Times" Best Seller list for nearly 30 weeks. "Kirkus Reviews" wrote: "It is a sensitive—at times a tragic—book, penetrating the depths of men's and women's souls, as line after line of the service is spoken, with its meaning enlarged, heightened by the lives of the listeners. ... The composite that emerges is a