by Bobbie Ann Mason (Harper & Row: $16.95; 208 pp.) “These stories work like parables, small in scale and very wise, tales wistfully told by a masterful stylist whose voice rises purely from the heart of the country.”
--Judith Freeman
LIVES ON THE BOUNDARY
The Struggles and Achievements
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of America’s Underprepared
by Mike Rose (The Free Press : $22.95; 254 pp.) “ ‘Lives’ is a mirror to the many lacking perfect grammar and spelling, who may see their dreams that ‘education held the power to equalize things’ translated into reality after all."--Barbara Neder