Bookworm

Stephen Wright

The Amalgamation Polka (Knopf) Stephen Wright has written a Civil War novel and has mastered all the prose styles of classic American literature (Melville, Twain, Stowe, et al). Here, we explore the profusion of voices and attitudes that characterized pre-PC. America: abolitionists, freed slaves, plantation masters, snake-oil salesmen, con men, ministers and utopians...