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...bony hand to him in pain and entreaty, of Jed himself holding a gun to the head of a German officer sneering "Heil Hitler!" The lingering force of these images is linked to the mode of narration; Jed tells his story--an odyssey which takes him from Dugton, Alabamaa to academic renown and personal tragedy back to Dugton again--by summoning up a series of scenes from his past. The novel, like his entire life, represents an attempt to come to terms with his roots, to discover in the sturdy consistency of his mother and the recklessness of his drunkard...
...WEAKNESSES, Warren's novel builds to its climax with subtle power. Having left Dugton at his mother's insistence, Jed never returns during her lifetime. Her death brings him back home again, to sleep in his old bed and listen to his stepfather's reminiscences. In a deeply moving passage, he joins his stepfather in a rite of appreciation for the woman who urged him to deny his past...
...fiction and his faith that the English language can still make exciting sense of the world. Yet a recitation of the novel's bare bones may give the reader the impression that he has seen this book many times before. Jed Tewksbury is a poor white boy from Dugton, Ala. His daddy is the dashing county drunk who falls down and kills himself " while urinating on his mule. Jed's mother is the pone of the earth. She supports her fatherless boy by working in a cannery. She makes sure he has clean shirts and does his homework...
...Rozelle's love affair, he is wise enough to know that passion thrives on obstacles-the more, the greater the passion. Beyond the obvious legal and social hurdles, there is Jed and Rozelle's shared yearning to accept what they are in terms of their Dugton past. In this sense, they ransack each other's bodies for the answer...
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