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Human Comedy, Cont'd;Jim Peyton's Fine Tall Tale of the Backwoods

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880121
Author:Judith Paterson

ZIONS CAUSE {1920-1950}

By Jim Peyton

Algonquin. 224 pp. $14.95

Aren't we all-one of these days-going to write that novel we know we have in us? At 62, Jim Peyton, a Kentucky playwright and educator, has turned out a first novel masterly enough to put all our paltry excuses and unrealized ambitions to shame.

Though one senses the influence of the masters of rural American fiction (Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson and Flannery O'Connor) throughout "Zions Cause," the mingling of tall tales, theology and tenderness is all Peyton's own as he unravels anew the ancient plot of ...

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