1 In a recent review of the novel, Eva-Marie Kröller remarks that "Earth and High Heaven is a true contemporary of women's movies like Warner Brother's Now Voyager [1942], " and she discusses the novel's detailed wardrobe and smoking scenes as part of this movie genre (198). The filmic quality of 1940s fiction was identified as early as 1945 by Anthony Lane. In an article published in The New Yorker, Lane explored the top ten bestsellers of the year, remarking that "[m]ost of the top ten books

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... f 1945 are bulging with envy, but they're not envious of Tolstoy, they're envious of 'Gone with the Wind' and not of Margaret Mitchell,