![]() ![]() ![]() If small town fiction is a genre, it's fascinating, albeit a tad embarrassing to contrast the British and American versions. ![]() Fitzgerald exercises remarkable restraint and control in crafting pungent sentences compiled in short chapters that capture the essence. Devoid of the usual smart aleck self-assurance that accompanies a jaundiced view of village traditions, this tale of thwarted aspirations is nevertheless completely aware that rural tradition is not an unmixed blessing. Fitzgerald's richly detailed look at the crusty foibles of a small town lays bare the stubborn reasons life remains the same as human weakness insists on familiar failure and vigorously rejects anything that smacks of the new. ![]()
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