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A skillful writer reveals the heroic in the ordinary in `Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still'.

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From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Date: 20030804
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Byline: Alan Cheuse

`Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still' by Kent Nelson; Viking ($24.95)

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The realistic tradition in American fiction is long and honorable, going back to Frank Norris in the late 19th century and the big, blunderbuss novels of Theodore Dreiser at the beginning of the 20th, and carried on splendidly at present by such distinguished and gifted novelists as Richard Ford and Joyce Carol Oates, and Wallace Stegner and Richard Yates before them.

Colorado-based writer Kent Nelson has been working in these same fields for quite a while, with ...

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