The Washington Post, May 5th, 2002
THE CURVE OF THE WORLD By Marcus Stevens Algonquin. 302 pp. $24.95 With The Curve of the World, commercial director and first-time novelist Marcus Stevens has made his contribution to a great narrative tradition: tales featuring naive, privileged Americans who tumble from the skies, wander into blizzards or wrack up on desert isles, where they must struggle to survive while ruing their failure to be nicer to their loved ones when they had the chance. This time, the necessary ominous backdrop is provided by the Congo, where the rumble of distant drums, the rattle of machine-gun fire and the squ...
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