NOT PYNCHON but another historical novel. New.

[Mark Kohut]

The Plist likes book recommendations in general. I have just ordered one I
learned about on the list. I cannot recommend this---yet---and I'm nobody,
who are you?
but Ron Charles at the WA PO has, in a wonderfully written review (at
least) and who might be right (at most)--I have trusted his judgment at
times and been rewarded.

So, with all the other books I have to read and all the terrif praising
reviews of so many others, I was moved to order this one for two reasons.
One, our Mason  & Dixon  reread because lines like this one in the
review".."with absolute fidelity to each era" yet....layered to the recent
past....and I wondered aloud here what other "historical' novels were even
like M & D..and
second reason, I read this guy's Devil in the Dooryard long ago and
remember being impressed...yet, reading while doing so much else including
working hard and work-related reading, and not taking notes and focussing
means I have little detailed memory of it....but very smart,
alive-with-ideas writing, as the cliche goes and I had Faust thoughts and
Olde New England (American; Puritan) concerns of sin and evil and all
that--guy goes off to live away from the sins of the modern world but
(American) shit happens
and then,and then.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/what-was-
it-like-to-live-in-a-world-both-more-formal-and-more-
brutal-than-our-own/2018/01/08/5ac1c8ac-f422-11e7-beb6-c8d
48830c54d_story.html?utm_term=.ab632a0ea5a3
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