Books
March, 1959
BooksEarly in Edward Mannix' An End to Fury (Dial, $4.95) our hero, Vince Boyle, a would-be writer, stands on the Florida strand and yells in the direction of Cuba and Ernest Hemingway: "Hey, Ernie -- I'm drunk and you can go to hell!" But it's James T. Farrell he should have cocked his fist at, for this first novel is a raw, rowdy, randy rendering of an Irish slum family -- the Boyles of Jersey City -- seen mostly through the hard eyes of the aforementioned Vince. What plot there is c...