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...book season has produced no brilliant major novels, but it has already introduced some highly promising first novelists, e.g., 27-year-old George Lanning, author of The Happy Rural Seat, and 31-year-old Jefferson Young, who wrote A Good Man (see Recent & Readable). Now comes a 27-year-old Polish girl named llona Karmel with a quietly gripping story called Stephania...
...Good Man, by Jefferson Young. The story of a Mississippi Negro who decides to paint his house, and white at that (TIME, March...
...scornful repudiation of the principle instituted by Jefferson in the foundation of our country and of every characteristic which makes American history the distinctive successful "experiment" before the critical eyes of the world which Lincoln stated it was, namely: belief in the basic goodness and self-improvable nature...
...Good Man, by Jefferson Young. The story of a Mississippi Negro who decides to paint his house, and white at that (TIME, March...
From fictional materials as simple as these, Mississippi-born Jefferson Young, 31, has spun a completely successful story, as true as it is humble, as convincing as humble truth. A Good Man does unobtrusively what the sordid sharecropper novels of the Erskine Caldwell school have never been able to do: it generates enormous sympathy for the Albert Claytons at the same time that it gives them dignity; it refuses to be defeatist about their future so long as heart and conscience have their say in human affairs...