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HOME FROM THE HILL, by William Humphrey. A carefully written story of a young man who bitterly discovers the dead rot at the heart of his parents' lives. The book offers a tense evocation of small-town Texas life and a sense of personal tragedy that borders on myth. Faulkner without the undergrowth...
...trimming and decoration have been packed and stored away for another year, there will be so many people huddling, like Mrs. Bella H., in some dank basement apartment, waiting for their cataracts to finish the job, waiting for their hearing to go, waiting for their remaining teeth to rot away...
...finally, Falstaff left. He had dug deep-seeking dry-rot in his soul's garden and found nothing, so he changed scenes, joined the two percent, went abroad. And there he is today, still delightfully happy, ever hunting misfortune, bearing always the curse of the modern Cain--a horrible isolation in his happiness...
...Never. They'd rot on the shelf. Got to call them... call them.. Wursts! Call them Wursts...
...economic problem of many U.S. cities is downtown rot. As middle-and upper-income families move to the suburbs, property values decline. Businessmen find themselves shouldering an increasing share of taxes while the shoppers they lost throng suburban shopping centers. Often the attempted remedy, subsidized public housing, turns out to be little better than the disease: the untaxed projects house people on relief...