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...story of how death brings dignity to an obscure factory worker; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, an uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains, but this time those of a less savory hero on the loose in a Pittsburgh slum...
...story of how death brings dignity to an obscure factory worker; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, an uncommonly well-written tale about the irregular but effective education of the most appealing little Southern girl since Carson McCullers' Frankie; and The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue, by Lester Goran, more growing pains but this time those of a less savory hero on the loose in a Pittsburgh slum...
...PARATROOPER OF MECHANIC AVE NUE, by Lester Goran (246 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50), also tells of a tough childhood and of growing pains, but in fictional form and in a city world far removed from Billy Clark's Kentucky...
...this excellent first novel, Pittsburgh-born Author Goran ranges familiarly through the yawning tenements and squalid streets of his slum, and even drops an unsentimental tear when bulldozers in the 1950s level it to a field of bricks in prep aration for the sterile rectangles of public housing. With the death of the slum, Goran makes an effort at redeeming his unsavory hero; it does not quite come off, compared to the snarling realism and cool, street-corner observation that shapes the rest of this story of Ike-o's growing up. The raucous garbage heap of Sobaski...
...Summer of Happiness (Times Film). "Say, let's swim!" cries Goran (Folk Sundquist). He is alone with Kerstin in the woods near the edge of a lake, and the day is as warm as days ever get in Sweden. Kerstin (Ulla Jacobsson), who is only 17, dimples and looks away, but then she says, "For you I'm not bashful." They undress and run laughing and gasping into the icy shallows. The laughter dies on Goran's lips as he sees her standing there, pretty as a pear. "Kerstin!" he says. She turns toward hirn with...