Artforum, October 1st, 2005
NOT SO PASSIONATE PILGRIMS MISSION TO AMERICA BY WALTER KIRN NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY. 288 PAGES. $24.
Readers who know Walter Kirn's work through the auspices of the New York Times (where his essays and reviews appear with metronomic regularity) might expect his fiction to be slick and measured, in a straight-to-Hollywood sort of way. But, like certain corners of the country it addresses, Kirn's fourth novel, Mission to America, turns out to be a surprisingly dingy affair.
Take, for instance, the author's description of a blue-collar residence in rural Wyoming-a house "constructed from two ident...
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