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Author: Brad Leithauser
First Published: 1989
Type of Work: Novel
Time of Work: 1993
Setting: Boston; Victoria, Indiana
Principal Characters: Timothy Briggs, Garner Brigos, Anndy, Oliver Conant, Vicky Schmidt, Linda Faccione, Doris Briggs, Masahiro “Ma-chan” Tatsumi, Reverend Rabbitt, Imre
Genres: Long fiction
Subjects: Family or family life, Music or musicians, Midwest, New England, Mass media, Technology, Computers, Artificial intelligence, Chess or chess players
Locales: Boston, MA, Victoria, IN

Brad Leithauser’s widely praised first novel, Equal Distance (1985), was autobiographical at least in that a graduate of the Harvard Law School and former research fellow at the Kyoto Comparative Law Center was writing about a young American law student in Japan. That book exhibited the virtues of an observant and sensitive realist thoroughly familiar with his material: above all, a solid, evocative fictional world. Hence, Leithauser’s second novel, is a different sort of story altogether. Set a few years into the future, built on a tricky narrative device, it seems at...

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