THE AGE OF LIGHT
With THE AGE OF LIGHT, a distinguished young Amer–
ican talent comes to maturity, and in many ways the
American novel of the present day moves toward a new
emphasis and a new theme.
For the widely acclaimed author of "A Wreath and a
Curse" has written a major novel which signals an end to
the literature of doom and decay.
Excitingly different in form, yet superbly readable, THE
AGE OF LIGHT affirms a mighty faith-not in a po–
litical system or a churchly ritual or a scientific theory,
but in the searching heart of man.
THE AGE OF LIGHT
THE AGE OF LIGHT
is
the story of the strangers who
love within us all .•. of 'the many kinds of love of which
the human hear.t is capable, and of the things that mas–
querade as love ••• the love of sex (in a woman who finds
it in the last flowering of her womanhood) ••• the love
of creating (in a cuckolded husband to whom destiny has
given the role of a fat clown, and who has failed less as
a human being than as a husband) . • • the love of evil
(in a weakling whose moment of greatest degradation
brings him closer than most men to full knowledge of
good) ••• and the unthinking love of a grown man with
the mind of a child and the all-encompassing devotion of
a sacrificed god.
THE AGE OF LIGHT
The new novel
by
DONALD WETZEL
To be published April 7
$3.50 at all bookstores
CROWN
PUBLISHERS.
N. Y.
