cover image A Season of Swans

A Season of Swans

Celeste Deblasis. Bantam, $5.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-553-28412-6

Concluding the Swan trilogy, this saga centers on a Maryland family famous for breeding racehorses. ``De Blasis tries to touch on every major trend and event of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a herculean task that overburdens both narrative and characters,'' lamented PW . (Nov.)