THE HISTORY OF ROME HANKS AND KINDRED MATTERSJoseph Stanley PennellScribners ($2.75).
The big guns of U.S. newspaper book reviewing greeted Rome Hanks last fort night with the most thunderous salvo that has welcomed a first novel since Gone With The Wind. It was a "superb achieve ment" to the New York Times and "a beautiful and terrible book" to the Herald Tribune; a "powerful, intense and tre mendous story" to the Chicago Sun; "extraordinary, impressive, raw, vital, brutal and alive" to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Some reviewers entered reservations ("exhibitionist antics . ....
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