TIME Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.

Current subscribers for full access. Not a TIME subscriber? .

Books: No Transfusion

THE WHOLE ARMOR (334 pp.)—Faith Baldwin—Rinehart ($3).

When a writer with the nationwide, 30-year following of Faith Baldwin announces that her new novel has her "life's blood" in it (TIME, Jan. 29), the news calls for a certain amount of pricking up of ears. With the publication of The Whole Armor, ears can be at ease. Like the 60-odd Baldwin novels that have preceded it, this earnest story of a young Manhattan minister's search for maturity has a pretty thin hemoglobin content.

Hero Paul Lennox is strong on good works and good looks, A dynamic young fellow, he is modern enough to insist...

Time.com on Digg

POWERED BY digg

Quotes of the Day »

ADELE, multi Grammy-award winning singer, in an interview given to Vogue before last Sunday's ceremony, on her plans to take a lengthy break. Her last album 21 was inspired by a failed relationship but the Londoner is now "madly in love"
For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.