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GARRETT EXPLORES HATRED BEHIND DEATHS BIG AND SMALL.(COMMENTARY)(Review)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 19960602
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Byline: ANN EGERTON

THE KING OF BABYLON SHALL NOT COME AGAINST YOU

GEORGE GARRETT

Harcourt Brace. 336 pp. $24.

In a broad and comic atmosphere that is sometimes reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio or more recently, of John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire, Virginia novelist George Garrett compares two murders and an apparent suicide in a small town in Florida to the assassination of Martin Luther King - all of which occurred the same day in April 1968 - and asks, are these horrors random or do they have a pattern?

Billy Tone, an investigative ...

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