Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:03:44 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] More Jim Morrow news...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Another great review, this in WaPo bookworld:

"James Morrow's novel about early American witchcraft pulls off so
many
dazzling feats of literary magic that in a different century he'd have
been burned at the stake.  Forget "The Crucible," Arthur Miller's
dreary
classic. Forget the repugnant kitsch of modern-day Salem. The Last
Witchfinder flies us back to that thrilling period when scientific
rationalism was dropped into the great cauldron of intellectual
history,
boiling with prejudice, tradition, piety and fear. The result is a
fantastical story mixed so cunningly with real-life details that your
vision of America's past may never awaken from Morrow's spell."

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032301453.html>

mjw