Born Brothers (Magill Book Reviews)

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BORN BROTHERS is a novel written with the intensity of poetry. Its narrator and protagonist is Charles Neumiller, whose consciousness the reader comes to share with overwhelming force. Much of the book centers on Charles’s childhood in North Dakota in the 1940’s, a wrenching family move to Illinois, and a painful adolescence; there are also extended scenes in New York, where, after college, Charles seeks work as an actor; Chicago, where he lives for a time with his wife and daughter; and, again North Dakota, to which he finally returns. From childhood Charles is marked by a sense...

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