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First novel traces connections missed

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19980208
Author:ALLISON HANTSCHEL

Newfangled.

By Debra Monroe.

Simon & Schuster. 299 pages. $22. Near the end of E.M. Forster's novel, "Howard's End," heroine Margaret Schlegel makes an impassioned protest against "the inner darkness in high places that comes with a commercial age," the tendency of human beings to absent themselves from their own existence and become emotionally and physically rootless, missing connections and never feeling the loss. Forster's novel was published in 1910 in England,and he could not have anticipated how much more pronounced the nagging sense of modern dislocation would become in an age ...

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