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...autobiographical novel which is the first book of Swedish Author Harry Martinson to be published in the U.S. The son of a sailor turned shopkeeper who died when the boy was only six, Author Martinson was left behind when his mother emigrated to the U.S., spent much of his boyhood and early youth tramping the world's roads and sailing the world's seas as sailor, cook, mechanic, abattoir worker and soldier of fortune...
...dropsical old shark called Book Gresham, the tag end of Tuxahatchie's first family. In defiance of the 13th Amendment, Book Gresham keeps a slave called Bodoc whom he won in a crap game. Symbolically, Book is impotent, apparently the result of one of those odd Southern boyhood experiences (with a Negro woman "musty like wild grapes") that suggest Dr. Kinsey was wasting his time among the modest aberrations of Northern folk...
Using such homely sentences for the titles of his paintings, Arkansas-born Carroll Cloar, 42, has unlocked a world of childhood memories, set down in sharply drawn scenes that combine the nostalgia of fading photographs with the surrealistic overtones of the artist's recollections of his boyhood days. On view last week at Manhattan's Alan Gallery, the results have the dreamlike quality of childhood remembered a long way from home...
...Arkansas. "I tried to imagine how things seemed to me when I was a child," he says. He found his mother's old picture album a rich lode to mine. Setting up his studio in nearby Memphis, Cloar painted My father was big as a tree, recording his boyhood image of his looming (200 Ibs., 6 ft. 1 in.) father, Charlie Cloar. Arrival of the Germans in Crittenden County, if they won the war they would be over here shows spiked-helmeted soldiers of the Kaiser's army wandering in greatcoats through a rolling Arkansas landscape. Garden...
...Stern Widow Júlia reared the boy and his older sister Maria on a schoolteacher's salary. Harried and embittered by poverty, Júlia drilled into her son a fierce will to succeed. Now a hale-looking 83, she still calls him by his boyhood nickname...