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...PATCHWORK TIME (323 pp.)-Robert Gibbons-Knopf...
Disillusion. The Patchwork Time is Robert Gibbons' second novel. (First was Bright Is the Morning.) Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1915, he began to write at 18, served during the war aboard an LST in the Pacific. His work is widely praised by such Southerners as Robert Penn Warren, Erskine Caldwell and Eudora Welty, seems typical of a growing school of graceless disillusionment in fiction, too accomplished not to be taken seriously, and too narrow not to be viewed with alarm by readers who respect its talents and potential contribution...
There is too much of everything in The Patchwork Time, too many recollections of childhood in the light of which maturity seems miserable, too many beers, too many fights, too many episodes all ending the same way, too many plots, too many betrayals, so that the reader's instinctive reaction is that it can't possibly be that bad, and that something fundamental has been left...
First prize ($2,500) went to one of the few bright spots: a tall, rainbow-colored patchwork of windows against a night sky. It had been painted by an unknown, 34-year-old Philadelphian named Henry Kallem, who submitted it without much expectation of winning a prize. Like last year's prizewinning What Atomic War Will Do to You, Kallem's half-abstract canvas bore a socially conscious title: Country Tenement. Explained Kallem: "My idea was to show how I felt seeing this scene one evening in the country-all the people crowded into one building with...
...Lincoln Reader is a kind of patchwork-quilt biography, expertly and tidily done. Editor Paul M. Angle,* a Chicago historian and bibliographer, has taken extracts from 65 authors, great and small, and worked them into a running narrative of Lincoln's life...