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Dowsednew
Rick Moody has made an ambitious leap into a sprawling, overstuffed satiric novel centered on the efforts of various incompetents to create a television mini-series called The Diviners.
Boston Phoenix |
Richard C. Walls |
11-10-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Rick Moody, The Diviners
Holding Forth: Marc Estrin's Arnold Hitlernew
Marc Estrin’s sophomore novel follows an alienated protagonist as his life intersects with various historical events and flash points. Arnold Hitler enters a Texas elementary school in the mid ’50s, and witnesses up close the wrenching drama of an early desegregation attempt.
Boston Phoenix |
Richard C. Walls |
07-19-2005 |
Fiction
Chaos Theorynew
So many eccentric characters and event-filled asides make this short novel seem crowded and the air inside a little stuffy. The protagonist's fate isn’t something you’re apt to care about, and the last-minute attempt at poignancy hardly registers more than a "how ironic."
Boston Phoenix |
Richard C. Walls |
11-16-2004 |
Fiction
Tags: Peter Stephen Jungk, Tigor
Marti and Morenew
Francisco Goldman’s fictional re-creation of 19th-century Central America is more telling in its details than in its larger picture.
Boston Phoenix |
Richard C. Walls |
10-19-2004 |
Fiction
