Word: claypits
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...most characteristic manner. The stories are for the most part laid in the South (which once provided us with our most romantic fiction) and deal with such subjects as lynching, starvation among the share-croppers and unemployed factory workers, criminal assault, black and white "naturals," and childbirth in a claypit. In what now seems to be settling down into a serious contest between him and the other most eminent fiction writer of the South, William Faulkner, Mr. Caldwell has here delivered the latest blow. He has equalled if not outdone himself and his rival in inventing novel and repellent forms...
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