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The novelization of Henry Adams

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19951018
Author:Richard Dyer, Globe Staff

PANAMA

By Eric Zencey, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 400 pp., $24

"Panama" is a first novel addressed to an uncommon reader who is interested in more than one kind of book -- or in a single book that cuts across the established genres. It is at once a historical novel, a psychological study, a mystery story -- a very unlikely combination of things, in fact, like "The Name of the Rose." The publisher is obviously hoping for another phenomenon like Umberto Eco; there is a huge first printing, and "Panama" is also a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.

The hero of "Panama" is Henry Adams ...

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