Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coal-bearing West Virginia was getting its coal on prescription (as other States had to get liquor during Prohibition) because John Llewellyn Lewis and operators in the great Appalachian coal fields had been unable to agree to a new wage contract. There had been no "strike." There was simply an...
Burton Rascoe of Newsweek recently described Lewis' book as "a study of adolescence and the tragicomic effort of a fine and sensitive youngster to escape from his virginity."
Lewis' own idea about the sex life of the Harvard undergraduate is that too often he sets out in quest of amorous adventures according "to some preconceived hard-and-fast theory, too frequently grounded on the exaggerations and distortions of other undergraduates boasting in bull sessions."
First, though, Lewis plans for two or three years after graduation to ramble around the country, learning about America, preferably by holding down newspaper jobs in several different localities.
Although the here of "They Still Say No" lives in Lowell House and himself has political aspirations, Lewis denies that the novel is "even as autobiographical as most first novels."