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From the Oxfam shop in Guildford.

These stories are very good, and I cannot put my finger on precisely why. Partly the realism, I think, and the vivid description, and the courage to put things as they are. (Having read the first story, 'A Party in the Square', I now know what was missing from 'The Help'.) Ellison combines a very specific time-place-and-people with universal human experience - a small boy is a small boy, and Ellison's Buster and Riley have an awful lot in common with, for example, William Brown. I wish I'd read this when I was studying the Civil Rights movement, because it would have made an awful lot of things a lot clearer.

Travelling in the Short and Sweet bookbox - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/9946189/

Enjoy!

Taken from the Short and Sweet Bookbox for my husband who is a big Lawrence of Arabia fan and has just started reading (!)