Before and After (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Rosellen Brown
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Texas
- Principal Characters: Jacob Reiser, Carolyn Reiser, Ben Reiser, Judith Reiser
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Adolescence, Murder or homicide, New England, West, U.S., Trials, Truth, 1990’s, Texas
- Locales: Massachusetts, Texas, New Hampshire
In A Voice of One’s Own: Conversations with America’s Writing Women (1990), Mickey Pearlman points out that one of Rosellen Brown’s major themes is the power of the irrational in the lives of even the most rational of human beings. This theme was evident in Brown’s first two novels, The Autobiography of My Mother (1976) and Tender Mercies (1978). While the crucial events in these early works are simply tragic accidents, the central incident in Before and After is a murder, one that the relatives of the killer would like to believe was in some sense an...
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