One of the most distinguished American authors, Wright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books including The Field of Vision, which won the National Book Award.
""In Orbit" is a short novel, full of action, and the seriousness
can mostly be found between the lines. [There] one can see against
what Jubal Gainer''s rebellion, thoughtless and aimless as it
seems, is directed. One might say that he is, like millions of his
contemporaries, a Huck Finn without a Mississippi."--Granville
Hicks, "Saturday Review"
"Here is another of Wright Morris''s craftsmanly novels--terse,
colloquial, restrained, fragmented, deliberately shadowy. Above
all, small; not slight, not inconsequential, but a miniature. . . .
All readers will surely appreciate the quality of the prose style
one has come to expect in a Wright Morris novel. . . . There is
also a muscular quality to Mr. Morris''s writing that makes it a
suitable instrument for conveying harsher things; and there is his
sense of the comic, which springs up constantly. In all, this is a
quiet but rich performance."--"New York Times Book Review"
"In the space of one day, Jubal E. Gainer, high school dropout and
draft dodger, manages to rack up an impressive array of crimes. . .
. He steals a friend''s motorcycle, rapes a simple-minded spinster,
mugs a pixyish professor, and stabs an obese visionary who runs a
surplus store. He then waits out an Indiana twister and goes his
way, leaving as much wreckage in his path as the twister
itself."--"Library Journal"
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