Small Town Life in U.S.A.
“MOTHER, everybody’s leaned on him since I was a boy. And he’s always been adequate. And yet he hasn’t got. anywhere much. He could have been big, mother, if things had just happened the way they should have.” This is what tlic son says about the father hero in “Career,” a novel by Mr. Phil Stong. of a small town in America. This is the best novel of life in the heart of the States publisher! in recent years. It. is quiet, but full of tense power, and gives a fine insight into the family life of millions in the small towns so different from New ) ork or Chicago.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 9
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114Small Town Life in U.S.A. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 9
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