Born Brothers (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry Woiwode
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1940's through the 1980's
- Setting: North Dakota, Illinois, and New York City
- Principal Characters: Charles Neumiller, Jerome Neumiller, Alpha Neumiller, Martin Neumiller
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s
- Locales: New York, NY
In a review praising John Gardner's Mickelsson's Ghosts (1982), Larry Woiwode faults contemporary novelists for their minimalist tendencies. Fiction is in a sad state of affairs, he says, when a writer may turn to the reader and explain that a character's room will not be described because it is uninteresting. For a reader finishing Woiwode's 611-page excursion through the mind and life of Charles Neumiller, Born Brothers may well seem a massive rescue job done on that neglected world, a world which treats the main character badly enough to engender the cynical reticence...
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