Echo House (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ward Just
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1916 to the 1990’s
- Setting: Washington, D.C.; France; and Springfield and Chicago, Illinois
- Principal Characters: Axel Behl, Alec Behl, Sylvia Walren Behl Borowy, Adolph Behl, Constance Barkin Behl, Leila Berggren Behl Borne, Nadege, Fred Greene, Ed Peralta, Billie Peralta, Sandrine Huet, “Flo, Lloyd Fisher
- Genres: Long fiction, Family literature, Political fiction
- Subjects: Politics, France or French people, Twentieth century, Marriage, Betrayal, Midwest, Adultery, Ambition, Military life or service, Banks, bankers, or banking
- Locales: France, Chicago, IL, Washington, D.C., Springfield, IL
Former journalist Ward Just has explored the complicated lives, motivations, and loyalties of those involved in American politics and those who report on their activities in such novels as In the City of Fear (1982) and Jack Gance (1989). Echo House, his twelfth novel, shows how the fates of the powerful in Washington, D.C., become intertwined through the lives of three generations of a family living in the mansion that gives the novel its title. Just makes the city and the house inhabited by the Behls as vivid as the human characters. His view of the American...
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