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E.L. Doctorow, Sweet Land Stories.(Book review)
From: Prairie Schooner
Date: 20060322
Author:Wolfe, Peter
E. L. Doctorow, Sweet Land Stories, Random House
Doctorow's sweet land has plenty of salt edges, the flat, noncommittal titles of his stories clashing admirably with the shocks he describes. This opposition also reflects his view of character and personality. These Sweetlanders belong in the tradition of American grotesques found in Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, and Carson McCullers, and they suffer the same knocks trying to site themselves in the world.
More secure, comfortable lives can explode in a heartbeat, too. Regrettably, the family provides little ...
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