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Wilson devotes a few short chapters to local and family history, which make the reader wish he had gone on to write not a personal chronicle but a full-dress report on upstate New York. There are a few rewarding anecdotes ("This great-aunt, when she found some uncomplimentary entries in her husband's commonplace book, had her marriage bed sawed in half and the two halves made into Empire couches"). There is also an account of the strange religions that flowered in the region 150 years ago. "The common features of several of these religions," he writes, "were...
...longer wary about coming into the library with their unpredictable children, who are occasionally entertained there by a local high school girl softly strumming a guitar. The real gain is that book circulation has increased. Mrs. Phipps may have hit upon the perfect gambit to lure the marginal reader who thinks all reading and no conversation makes the library a dull place...
...even occasional fictitious characters. Morrison obviously has some misgivings. "Often, I confess, I was unable to separate 'fact' from 'invention,' so deftly did Prescott weave them together to give the illusion of veracity. Was Prescott mad, I wondered? Was he taking revenge on innocent readers like myself for the grotesqueries that he had experienced in international politics, for the deceptions and lies he had swallowed?" Concludes Morrison: "The reader should be forewarned...
...been transmogrified into a wise and mellow padrone, and the story shifts a generation. Daughter Anna inherits her mother s masochism; her sister Margaret gets her father's greed. As for Robert, he drinks, chases women and wonders what the Old Man ever saw in him. The reader can only agree...
...reader is kept on a taut leash of suspense, and the hero finally becomes a breathing instance of a truth that the radical left tends to overlook. However politically useful they may be, gadflies are born, not made...