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STONES FOR BREAD - Edwin Carlile Litsey - Caxton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...tears brother Martin's childish heart to bits. In the main, though, the book is merely a play-by-play description of the dim mental processes of the brothers-perhaps the most authentic imbeciles in U. S. letters-and of their borderline methods of staying alive. Author Litsey slops over a few times. But few books have matched his for its communication of utter loneliness, its sensuous clarity, its grave and unforced pity, the unpremeditated purity of its telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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