RIVER OF EARTHJames StillVikinq ($2.50).
A sense of what is fitting, in the best meaning of the word, is an invaluable attribute of a writer. Among other good qualities, it is one that James Still seems to have achieved. Born 30 years ago in the hills of Alabama, brought up in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt, Still has written some modest but unmistakable poetry (Hounds on the Mountain). River of Earth is his first novel. The problem it fairly solves is that faced by many Southern novelists: how to be sectional without being affected. The...
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