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Word: mule (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stones for Bread is the dead simple, dead earnest story of two brothers, all but subhuman garbage heap derelicts, who live near a Kentucky town. Such little plot as there is develops in the death of one brother, of a dog, of a mule; in the chance hour's visit of a sleek woman who 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...

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

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