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...generations in the Kentucky hill country his family had been farmers, moonshiners, preachers and feudists. His father was an impoverished and illiterate coal miner. But young, log cabin-born Jesse Stuart, who often went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Robert Burns, was determined to go to college (Said a neighbor: "He's a plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages...
...KIND OF LOVING, by Stan Barstow (309 pp.; Doubleday: $3.95), is the work of a Yorkshire coal miner's son who seems to think that it is still possible to write a novel about ordinary people who do what they have to do. Nowadays, the idea seems almost revolutionary; but Novelist Barstow makes it stick...
There is little story to speak of. Like the author, the book's hero is the son of a Yorkshire coal miner. At 21, Vic Brown is so innocent and wholesome that England's angry young men wouldn't be caught taking a pint of bitter with him in a pub. Vic's trouble is, quite simply, sex and one particular girl. She is a "bint" who works in his office-legs right, figure right, fresh and sweet-smelling at 18. After a few bashful fumbles, Vic finds that he has "compromised" a nice but very...
...Eskimos sound five times as colorful as they are, in stories he wrote for a Jesuit monthly in Spain, whose publisher began collecting his pieces and printing them in paperback books (there are now nine, all brisk sellers). Father Llorente also writes, in English, for the Fairbanks News-Miner, whose managing editor rates him "the best stringer...
MARY WOODIN MINER New York City...