[PW] short story STUMPER

[Marian Drabkin]

Sorry for inability to provide an exact source, but I'm home and haven't the 
books to look through.
This does sound very much like a chapter from one of Thomas Wolfe's books, 
and certainly, the description of the author and the time period both fit 
that.

Marian Drabkin

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> PLEASE EXCUSE ANY CROSS POSTINGS
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have exhausted my searching, can anyone please help?
>
> I have a patron who remembers reading a short story in his undergrad
> program at Wisconsin in the 1950s.  The story is a descriptive narrative
> about a circus crew eating breakfast. The crew were big men who ate
> "sputtering rashes of bacon" and drank steaming coffee. It was written
> by an American man who may have been described as a "giant of a man"
> (perhaps T.S Eliot or O.Henry?). It was written somewhere in between
> 1900-1950.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help or any clues on this!
>
> -- 
> Sarah Kostin
> Reference Librarian
>
>
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