The Washington Post, October 17th, 1999
THE FALL OF THE YEAR By Howard Frank Mosher Houghton Mifflin. 278 pp. $24 Reviewed by Sudip Bose "The best American fiction," Flannery O'Connor wrote in 1963, "has always been regional." These few words hold much wisdom: When fiction is grounded in locale, born out of a deeply felt sense of place, it comes alive in the imagination. The trick, of course, is for a novel to transcend the regional at the same time that it is immersed in it, to aspire to some larger truth, to provide the reader with what O'Connor called "the possibility of reading a small history in a universal light." The failure ...
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