The Whistling Song
Stephen Beachy. W. W. Norton & Company, $21.95 (416pp) ISBN 978-0-393-30949-2
Verbose, surreal and disturbing, this picaresque tale of an orphan's idealistic quest across the U.S. is at times unbearably thick with metaphor and ersatz profundity. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 11/02/1992
Genre: Fiction