Books: American Gothic

THE KING'S INDIAN by JOHN GARDNER Illustrations by HERBERT L FINK 323 page

With seven books published in the past five years, Novelist John Gardner, has confounded the theory that quality can only come slowly, and in small doses. Gardner is a professor of English who has managed to lob serious, stylistically adventuresome fiction over the barricades of academic coteries and onto the middle levels of America's bestseller lists. He is also a fabulist with a heart, capable of making the arcane both accessible and emotionally stirring. Near the end of The King's Indian,...

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