Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation for what has been called artistic license or dishonesty...
The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Commonly regarded as the founder of social realism, he also...
Desert Indian Woman: Stories and Dreams. By Frances Manuel and Deborah Neff. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. Pp. xxxviii + 229, preface, introduction, photographs, notes. $39.95 cloth, $17.95 paper) For centuries, the Tohono O'odham lived in the desert Southwest-present-day southern Arizona and...
BAR HARBOR - A Mount Desert woman died Saturday after she was ejected from her vehicle when it rolled on Route 3, police said. The accident happened around 4:30 p.m. when Jennifer Carter, driving a 1997 GMC sport utility vehicle, drifted off the...
