National Review, December 5th, 1986
Off for the Sweet Hereafter
by T. R. Pearson (Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 283 pp., $17.95)
"HE'S GOT a good ear': Few accolades are more likely to turn a writer's head. But what if the ear on that head has been used to record an interminably garrulous story-teller of gargantuan cuteness?
This seems to be what T. R. Pearson has done in his second novel, Off for the Sweet Hereafter. Like his first, A Short History of a Small Place, it is set in his home state, North Carolina, and populated by some not-so-lovable eccentrics. He has set out with his extraordinary ear to mike the voice of t...
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