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...WORKING-John Faulkner-Harcourf, Brace...
...remarkable first novel came out of the South this week, and the Jeeter Lesters, Ty Waldens, Snopes and Joads moved over to make room for a new family of U.S. literary Kallikaks - the Taylors. Its author: John Faulkner, younger brother of William Faulkner (Sanctuary and eleven other novels). The story: how the Taylors and their neighbors exchanged the certain poverty of sharecropping in Mississippi for the uncertainties of city life...
...Author Faulkner, a former WPA official, tells this shabby and pathetic tale with great literary tact, balancing against the slapstick ignorance and innate apathy of his unheroic characters, their deep sense of their own personal dignity, natural courtesy, terrible patience, thwarted honesty. No idealization, Men Working is the most human book that has been written about WPA workers, the saddest and the funniest...
...Blanchard Sally West, BeaverBurton P. Block Evelyn O'Leary, MiltonThomas J. Carens Molly Hunter, WellesleyFrancis H. Caskin Mary Mercier, DanversRobert W. Chase Janet Nichols, WellesleyWalter A. Deane Martha Ann Lawton, Academic ModernoJames A. Doering Cornelia Weeks, SmithCharles A. Eberhardt Cynthia Carlisle, NewtonJohn D. Eusden Mildred Lane, WellesleyJohn C. Faulkner, III Polly Marshall, WheatonPhilip F. Fickett June Andrews, WellesleyFrank F. Goodman Jane Tupper, WellesleyStanley Gordon Elaine Robins, LazellDonald Harting Ann Rice, MiltonWilliam L. Hewes Mary Louise Shoemaker, Connecticut CollegeThomas C. Holyoke Mary Faunce, Jamaica PlainHarry L. Hosford, Jr. Bobsie Deming, The Day SchoolMarshall Hughes Ann Carpenter, Sarah LawrenceGerald A. Kerrigan Margaret...
...Anderson is like the family coach horse," Novelist William Faulkner once said; "He's dependable, you can trust him to take the children to Sunday school safely...