Volume 40, Number 1 & 2 · January 14, 1993
Criminal Elements
By Kerry Fried
Before and After
by Rosellen Brown
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 354 pp., $21.00
Black Dogs
by Ian McEwan
Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 149 pp., $19.50
Rosellen Brown's recent novel, Before and After, and Ian McEwan's Black Dogs both explore the effects of an act of unfathomable violence on a family. Though Before and After centers on a murder, it is, more than a reconstruction of events, a psychological analysis of the impact of those events on the family. Black Dogs is harder to place, an uneasy mixture of mystery, contemporary history, and novel of ideas.
Review, 2939 words
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