01068c ua2200169 4500 00000000000041407 101111 1985 us 000 eng 0345332636 810 P 36 Pearson T. R. A Short History of A Small Place: Daddy. Junious. Mayor. Sister New York: Ballantine Books, 1985. 400 p. n/29567 The 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 7002 7002 0 0 0 0 UWED UWED ANT 2013-05-21 0 810 P 36 000000024161 2026-08-05 12:39:04 2026-08-05 BK