Lavender Hill Mob
Peter Quinn April 30, 2007 - 9:12am
Fellow Travelers
Thomas Mallon
Pantheon, $25, 368 pp.
There is no contemporary practitioner of the art of historical fiction more accomplished, in my view, than Thomas Mallon. His forays into the past have ranged from small-town life in post-World War II America (in Dewey Defeats Truman), to the frantic world of magazine publishing in the 1920s (in Bandbox), to the eponymous couple in Henry and Clara, who accompanied Lincoln and his wife to Ford’s Theater on the night of his assassination. (The...
The remainder of this article is only available to paid subscribers.
Print subscribers to Commonweal are entitled to free access to all premium online content. Click here to purchase a print subscription, or if you’re already a print subscriber, register now for premium access.
Online-only subscriptions provide access to all premium online articles for just $34/year. Click here to subscribe.
Registered users, please log in below:
Topics:
Printer-friendly version
Send by email