A PLACE TO COME TO.

401pp. VG in VG dj. Warren, (1905-1989), born in Guthrie, Kentucky, is one of Kentucky's outstanding literary figures, being the only person to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and for Poetry. He was the first Poet Laureate of the United States and the recipient of numerous awards and commendations. This, his last novel, is the story of Jed Tewksbury, born in Dugtown, Alabama, "an uprooted and alienated man - not uncommon in our time - and is told by himself in a style sometimes poetic, sometimes raunchy, an effective blend of his backwoods origin and his scholarly attainments. Jed is born just at the end of the First World War. When he is nine his drunken father dies in a low-comedy accident that becomes part of the obscene folklore of the region. His semi-literate mother has a caustic wit, an iron character, and the determination that Jed will escape the South.".