01015c  ua2200145   450000100180000000800410001802000150005910000180007424500690009226000400016130000110020150000120021252006280022400500170085200000000000041407101111 1985    us            000   eng    a03453326362 aPearson T. R.10aA Short History of A Small Place:bDaddy. Junious. Mayor. Sister  aNew York:bBallantine Books,c1985.  a400 p.10an/29567  aThe subjects of this beautiful first novel are Momma and Daddy and madness, and they reside - or `endure,` the tone being somewhat Faulkneresque - in town that... T. R. Pearson brings movingly to life... Neely is a speck on the map in North Carolina, and the narrator is Louis Benfield, a youth not as wry as Holden Caulfiend, but certainly as observant, and with a bigger, even sadder, heart... a remarkably funny book... more than an impressive debut; it is an accomplishment. If there is some benign God watching over us, we want Him to look upon us with the wisdom and compassion with which Mr. Pearson views his world.20260805123904.0