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Driftless.(Brief article)(Book review)

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This genial, if meandering, novel marks the author's return after a thirty-year absence; after he published three well-received novels, a motorcycle accident left him partially paralyzed. Set in a rural Wisconsin town, the book presents a series of portraits that resemble Edgar Lee Masters's "Spoon River Anthology" in their vividness and in the cumulative picture they create of village ...

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