But back to the book which begins with this opening sentence:
Edgar Hoover and McCarthyism, there was payback for that poem–a poem which surely couldn’t have missed the beady eyes of Hollywood commie hunters.
There are some peculiarities about the career of Alfred Hayes–one time he received credit as “Albert Hayes,” for example, and ultimately it seems as though Hayes just missed an “ A-list career.” The intro brings up the fact that Hayes wrote a poem “ I Dreamed I saw Joe Hill Last Night,” and I can’t help but wonder if, given the anti-red tendencies of Hollywood thanks to J. The New York Review Books edition of In Loveincludes an overview, by Frederic Raphael, of the writer’s career. He was a reporter, a screenwriter, and a novelist before his death in 1985. This explains why he finds himself sitting on a bar stool telling his sob story to the first girl who’ll listen to him.Īlfred Hayes, born in Britain in 1911, moved with his family to America when he was 3. While Electrico W looks at various ways we love people, In Loveis the story of a man who can’t understand where his relationship with a woman went wrong. After finishing Electrico W, I turned to In Loveby Alfred Hayes–another book which coincidentally examines the subject of love.
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