Word: readers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white man's god. They obey their masters and know their masters' weaknesses. Their own lives encompass an area to which the white folks have no pass, and it is one of Author Dermout's virtues that she can suggest this life without dragging the reader through kitchens and bedrooms. There is a story of sorts. The small girl, with the awareness of the very young, sees a disastrous love affair founder, and she watches as white and native lives run courses that to her are not so much meaningless as mysterious. Already the Indonesians are rising...
...down. Best of all, she can describe a life no longer possible without resorting to plantation tears. Yesterday is offered as a bit of fiction. It does not matter how it is read, as imagination or autobiography; the best thing about this book is the fact that the reader is almost never aware of a fine writer...
...least it occupies the same ballpark. With this series Anderson introduces himself not only as a first-class writer, but also as an observer who aims to talk only about life as it is lived by people who are not professionally sensitized to it. To the reader's delight, there is hardly a nuance in the book...
...this kind of distance that removes Lover Man from the mountain of angry-Negro stories. Anderson is not mad at anyone. He is fascinated by the South, by what he has seen, and by what he has heard, and he manages to re-create that fascination for his reader...
...among dead men and the cat knows it." Sitwell's final guess is typical: "As with human beings, so with all creatures, their god is in themselves and not in a high place in the sky . . . We, and all creatures, are left to fend for ourselves." To the reader of the slightest religious instinct, Author Sitwell's long and learned journey is about as enlightening as a snatch of nursery rhyme. And Sitwell, being a Sitwell, may have intended just that...