David Plante’s fourteen novels include the Francoeur trilogy, the intense and compelling story of a working-class French-Canadian family in Rhode Island. The very titles of those three novels-The Family, The Woods, The Country-give a sense of the directness of Plante’s prose, in which plain words accumulate a stark power. Plante’s memoir, American Ghosts, (...)
January 28, 2005
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American Ghosts
American GhostsDavid PlanteBeacon Press, $24, 288 pp.
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