Volume 45, Number 13 · August 13, 1998
The Gang's All Here
By Thomas R. Edwards
The Half-life of Happiness
by John Casey
Knopf, 513 pp., $25.00
When John Casey's novel Spartina deservedly won the National Book Award for 1989, it was announced as the first volume of 'a long cycle of fiction set in Rhode Island'; but its successor, The Half-life of Happiness, set in Virginia and a very different kind of book, is clearly not part of that project.
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