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Like You'd Understand Anyway.(Brief article)(Book review)
Many of these exquisite, multifaceted tales take outlandish historical occurrences--a father and son who rode out the largest tidal wave in recorded history in a fishing vessel; nineteenth-century explorers who lugged a whaleboat through a desert in search of a "vast inland sea"--and make them into stories about familial or marital tensions. Thus, the head executioner in revolutionary France watches his ...
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