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'American Bloomsbury' an unfulfilling read.(Daily Break)
From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20070121
Author:
AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work
SUSAN CHEEVER
Simon & Schuster. 223 pp. $26.
BY KIT BAKKE
The Washington Post
SUSAN CHEEVER is the latest literary moth to be drawn to the bright flame of mid-19th century Concord, Mass. Her 12th book, "American Bloomsbury," invites readers to meander through the lives of five neighbors whom we would do well to remember.
Cheever sets her stage early on: "We may think of them as static ...
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