Mamaw
Susan Dodd. Ballantine Books, $3.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-345-36297-1
``The story of Zerelda Cole James Samuel, mother of the infamous `James Boys,' Jesse and Frank, is told in an absorbing novel, '' wrote PW . But readers may balk at an occasional lapse into inflated prose and some won't buy the depiction of an otherwise moral Zerelda condoning the vicious brutality of her sons. (Mar.)
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Reviewed on: 01/30/1990
Genre: Fiction