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Winter 1961 • Vol. XXIII No. 1 • Book Reviews |

A Prose Altogether Alive

By Edward M. Hood

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, $3.75.

 

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Too Graceful to Be True

By Zoïlus

The Light In The Piazza by Elizabeth Spencer. McGraw-Hill Book Company, $3.00. Babbo non vuole, Alamma nemmeno, Come faremo fare l’amor’? Already have an account? Log in Join KR for […]

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