Volume 1, Number 3 · September 26, 1963
Body & Soul
By Julian Moynahan
The Learning Tree
by Gordon Parks
Harper & Row, 320 pp., $4.05
Flesh
by Brigid Brophy
World, 160 pp., $3.95
Gordon Parks is a staff photographer for Life who recently published in that magazine a camera essay about the Black Muslims and a moving reminiscence of his boyhood in a Kansas border village during the 1920's. The pictures of the latter essay are accompanied by excerpts from The Learning Tree, a first novel in which Mr. Parks creates a fictional construction of his early years on the American prairie.
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