"Melville Goodwin USA" was not well received by the critics when it was published in , and it turned out to be John Marquand's poorest selling book to date. The reader discovers that there's a plot only after slogging through the first two-thirds of the book, and by that time can't be blamed for caring little about how things turn out.4/5(8). · John Marquand has brought a great sympathetic understanding to this highly trained leader in war who had become isolated from the sophisticated world outside the army. Dottie was noticeably attractive in any society and in the freedom of wartime Paris she represented for Mel Goodwin a break in the monotony of high echelon routine/5(24). · John P. Marquand (–) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, proclaimed “the most successful novelist in the United States” by Life magazine in A descendant of governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, shipping magnates Daniel Marquand and Samuel Curzon, and famed nineteenth-century writer Margaret Fuller, Marquand always had one foot inside the blue-blooded Brand: Open Road Media.
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"Melville Goodwin USA" was not well received by the critics when it was published in , and it turned out to be John Marquand's poorest selling book to date. The reader discovers that there's a plot only after slogging through the first two-thirds of the book, and by that time can't be blamed for caring little about how things turn out. Melville Goodwin, USA book. Read 3 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. This is a novel about a major general - a specialist in combat. John Marquand has brought a great sympathetic understanding to this highly trained leader in war who had become isolated from the sophisticated world outside the army. Dottie was noticeably attractive in any society and in the freedom of wartime Paris she represented for Mel Goodwin a break in the monotony of high echelon routine.
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