Another Night - Another Day

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+. 1941. Later Printing (no "A"). Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, light shelfwear only, slight darkening to spine cloth, minor soiling to rear cover; small name label on front pastedown, beneath which someone has drawn a crude peace symbol in blue ink]. Novel set in Greenwich Village, centering around a pair of sisters and their marriages -- one to an amiable fellow who hasn't quite recovered from losing his job when the stock market crashed in 1929, the other (working as an advertising copywriter) to a impoverished playwright who's convinced he's a genius and expects her to support him. The latter's domestic non-bliss is complicated when she meets and finds herself attracted to a more substantial guy, a former pro basketball player. One contemporary critic praised the book for its "witty, easy short-cut phrases [and] the sparkling slangy epigrams, like so many zircons twinkling in a jeweller's window," while also opining that it would make a good movie. It didn't make it onto the screen at all, actually, although the author's later novel, "Letter to Five Wives," did (after writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz jettisoned a couple of its wives). .