Volume 54, Number 19 · December 6, 2007
A Bright Voice from a Dark Place
By John Banville
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born
Graywolf, 258 pp., $22.00
In his great essay 'Experience,' Ralph Waldo Emerson has some famously cool things to say on the warm subject of grief. In January 1842 Emerson and his wife Lidian lost their much-loved son, five-year-old Waldo, to scarlet fever. On the morning after the death Emerson wrote to various of his friends and poured out his sorrow:
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