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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010218
Author:Reviewed by Bart Schneider

MARY AND O'NEIL

By Justin Cronin

Dial. 243 pp. $21.95

In an age in which "quiet" fiction rarely gets published, presumably because there are not enough quiet souls out there to buy it, Justin Cronin's fine debut collection, Mary and O'Neil, deserves a thundering welcome. This series of eight connected stories about O'Neil Burke, his New England family and Mary, the woman whom he will eventually wed, conjures a world as rich in emotional truth as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.

Instead of considering, as Anderson did, the interior lives of small-town grotesques, Cronin offers his readers ...

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