Word: litsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STONES FOR BREAD - Edwin Carlile Litsey - Caxton...
...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...
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