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The Lost and the Found |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: James Thompson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,077 Words, 11,876 Characters |
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THE NAMES OF THE LOST
Liza Weiland
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1992
312 pp., $19.95
In Wim Winders' film Wings of Desire an angel descends upon Berlin to eavesdrop on the minds of the city's troubled souls. Their secret thoughts take voice, swelling into a plaintive chorus of sorrows, losses, hopes, and desires. Liza Wieland's Names of the Lost similarly provides an "angelic" vantage point from which to listen to the voiced thoughts of a city's inhabitations. The voices--nine in all--arise from Atlanta in the summer of 1980, and each reveals the inner workings of a mind through first-person narration. Though Wieland situates her characters in the South, this is a land of suburbs and backyard swimming pools, not the older South of uniqueness and particularity. In Wi...
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...he characters' struggles with finding and losing, and technically accomplished in orchestrating the separate voices. The prose--filled with arresting metaphors and evocative images--could be that of a much older and more experienced writer. Something must be amiss in the publishing industry; how else can one explain that a novel this good could find a home only with a small university press?
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