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Word: drinkard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coward-McCann). Author Goudge has a highly developed bestseller touch, and her simple story of family life in England is just what her fans might have ordered. As far from the Goudge world as possible is the African world of First Novelist Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Grove), a world of myth, legend and fantasy. The language is odd and flavorsome, as befits a book whose hero drinks 225 kegs of palm wine every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The September Glut | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

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