THE OPEN CITY

by Shelley Smith Mydan ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 15, 1944

Semi-fictionalized story of a Japanese internment campoutside Manila, based on authentic personal experience. Shelley Mydans, Life reporter, spent months in such a campafter the fall of the Philippines. She has written a movingtale, cleancut, tensely styled, episodic in handling.Unprottifiod and uncomfortable glimpses of Americans trappedthere, of the physical and moral downgrade, despite organized attempts to deal with problems of health, sanitation, food. There's Dodi, who goes to pieces at the fall of Bataan, where her husband is; Penny, who falls victim to TB; Vinnis, who takes a cheap way out; Hark, head of the camp, necessarilynoting as intor with the Japanese; and primarily Katharine, who doesn't know where Stan, her husband is, and who isattracted by Dick , believed by most to be a deserter, but whois actually an escaped prisoner, ultimately retaken by theJapanese. Good reading.

Pub Date: Feb. 15, 1944

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1944

Categories: FICTION