THE LACUNA ~ a socialist review of Barbara Kingsolver’s novel
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The Lacuna, or what’s missing
By Sandy English
© World Socialist Web Site
27 March 2010
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver,
New York: Harper, 2009, 507 pages
Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, The Lacuna, was recently nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Before that, it appeared on US bestseller lists for several months.
The subject matter of the book is compelling. Kingsolver recounts the life of a fictional writer named Harrison Shepherd, mixing his story in with those of such historical figures as the Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, in the late 1930s. She describes the persecution Shepherd faces for his left-wing associations during the anti-communist witch-hunts after the second world war …
To read this passionate review in its entirety, go to the WSWS.org original
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