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...author retains his passion for the act of 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...
...Jed makes it because he is cool and very smart. He starts as a student of the classics. At the University of Chicago he immediately impresses teachers with his grasp of Latin and Greek. As a graduate student he is already publishing acclaimed scholarly papers. Jed's success in academe is never in doubt...
Evangelist George "Jed" Smock yesterday urged Harvard students to seek God "before it's too late...
...make matters worse, not only was I a California, but I was reared in that affluent ghetto of Beverly Hills. I grew tired of people who would ask me what movie stars I knew intimately, or if Jed Clampett lived next door. Little did they realize that I lived on the south side of the tracks...
...DeMichele and Dave Hynes each scored three goals, while captain Joe Cavanagh and Bob McManama, who Jed all scorers with six points, had two goals apiece in the slaughter...