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Notes the Way
Marshall, Margaret | February 21, 1948 issue

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The article discusses the book "The Circus in the Attic," by Robert Penn Warren contains two novelettes the title piece and another called "Prime Leaf," and a number of short pieces. "The Circus in the Attic" is an ambitious tale. Its central character is a man named Bolton Loveheart, but in telling his story Warren gives in some sixty pages, the look, the life and a good deal of the history of the town of Bardsville. Bolton Loveheart's great grandfather, a frontiersman, had founded the town. Bolton himself, after a few attempts at rebellion, has been reduced to complete subjection by a mother who, in order to gain this end becomes a permanent invalid.

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CIRCUS in the Attic, The (Book); WARREN, Robert Penn, 1905-1989; LITERATURE; AUTHORS; INSURGENCY; HUMANITIES
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