The Boston Globe, September 15th, 1991
MATING By Norman Rush. Knopf. 480 pp. $23. However deep its migratory impulses, contemporary American fiction doesn't much like to travel beyond its own borders. Cultural hegemony has taken care of that: Why leave home in search of Hemingway's Spain or Fitzgerald's Riviera, only to find Coca-Cola signs and the Esperanto of Styrofoam litter wherever you go? Norman Rush rebelled against this provincial sensibility with "Whites," his 1986 story collection set in Botswana, which gathered all kinds of underground acclaim for its truthfulness and derring-do. Rush, who filed as a conscientious object...
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