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| Ginny and me with my editor, Nancy Miller, at Bloomsbury |
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| The Shelby Cobra next door. |
As in Hellenga’s earlier work, secondary characters have professions
and interests that allow the author to leaven the story with short,
lucid passages about astronomy, physics, piano tuning, the wholesale
produce business, opera and long-haul trucking. Meals are lovingly
prepared and described so clearly that you can use a Hellenga novel as a
cookbook.
In many ways, “The Confessions of Frances Godwin”
sums up and surpasses Hellenga’s previous body of work. This is a story
of maturity by maturity for maturity, written with subtlety, deep
learning and wisdom.
Read the full review at
The Washington Post, 8/1/14.
