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9780143104858
"...PENROD: HIS COMPLETE STORY amasses a portrait of an American boyhood that, for richness of detail and sheer vividness of recollection, has few equals....In addition, Penrod's environs have a tactile and often olfactory reality that any novelist--of adult no less than children's fiction--might envy....The benign ghost of Mark Twain flutters over the entire enterprise and Penrod's nearest literary kin may be Tom Sawyer."Tarkington, Booth is the author of 'Penrod ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780143104858 and ISBN 0143104853.
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