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AUTHOR: DONALD KATZ...
...Katz began the interviews for Home Fires four years ago and obviously became fond of the Gordons. He is pleased that they now seem at peace with themselves and the faith that even "the most wounded of families could eventually heal." Readers will be forgiven if they attribute some of the Gordons' semihappy ending to sheer exhaustion...
...Gordons, who star in Donald Katz's vividly reported chronicle of "One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America," are real people, not composites or fictional characters. They bear no resemblance to the antic moms, dads and kids of television sitcoms. They do call to mind that scene in slasher movies in which a young woman hesitates before stepping into the darkness of a house filled with lurking horrors. You can't believe she is going to do something so frighteningly unwise, but she does. In Home Fires, the Gordons...
...Katz conceived his book as a "saga of the sort usually found in novels," and that is what he delivers brilliantly. In a morbidly fascinating chapter for each year from 1945 to 1990, the Gordon daughters and son wander into every haunted house they catch a glimpse...
...Alam, Robert B. Stevens (Assistant Editors); Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Researchers) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...