For over twenty years, in half a dozen novels, Richard Russo has followed the examples of William Faulkner and William Kennedy in choosing a single geography for his fiction. He returns to one remembered place again and again, mining it for general insights into the human condition. His geography is a little less focused, a little more regional than Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha C (...)
March 28, 2008
Books
An Art of Dislocation
Bridge of SighsRichard RussoAlfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 528 pp.
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