BEYOND THE BEDROOM WALL
by LARRY WOIWODE
619 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
$12.95.
Near the beginning of this great Midwestern journey, Charles Neumiller supervises the home burial of his father Otto, a German Catholic immigrant who had carved an honest farm out of the unyielding North Dakota plains. Near the end, Charles himself dies and is mourned by new generations of Neumillers. Between these obituary landmarks, Charles' son Martin marries, raises a family of five reasonably normal children, moves from North Dakota to Illinois and loses his wife to uremia. That is, in...
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