THIS is a story of the strange, half-American, half-Spanish peasants who live in an isolated village in New Mexico. The war breaks in upon their independent existence, and for the first time Little Jo and his people find themselves struggling, sometimes ridiculously, sometimes valiantly, to understand the way of America.

     Robert Bright has a habit of making up his mind to do a thing, and then doing it. He wanted to be a foreign correspondent, but from where he sat as reporter for the Baltimore Sun, the process looked too long. So he pulled out and went abroad to join the staff of the Paris Times.

     Suddenly deciding that he wand to make $10,000 a year, he came back Io the States and went into the fur business. He was on the verge of getting it when he changed his mind again. This time he moved with his whole family to New Mexico to live and work with the people he wanted to write about.

     This, his first novel, is the result. It has received unusually high critical praise -- but then Mr. Bright must have wanted that too.

     This special edition of THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LITTLE JO has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., New York.

     Edition's for the Armed Services, Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime

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