Volume 52, Number 11 · June 23, 2005
Another Neverland
By Cathleen Schine
Jerry Engels
by Thomas Rogers
Handsel, 248 pp., $23.00
At the Shores
by Thomas Rogers
Handsel, 284 pp., $14.00 (paper)
One of Thomas Rogers's many gifts as a novelist is his ability to imbue the less appealing realities of both love and landscape with a gentle, elegiac beauty. Rogers writes about adolescent boys and the industrial towns of eastern Indiana. Nothing, at first glance, could excite less admiration. Yet, in Rogers's loving hands, drunken frat boys are revealed in all the sweetness of their humanity, and the fires of steel mills decorate the evening sky like sunsets.
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