Books, Arts & Manners: American Gothic

Born Brothers, by Larry Woiwode (Farrar, Straus, 612 pp., $18.95)

Born Brothers, Larry Woiwode’s second novel about the Neumiller family, taken together with its 1975 companion, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, brings the number of densely packed pages devoted to this story to a total of 1,231. If there istobea third volume—and I expect that one is coming—the Neumiller saga will weigh in at about the same tonnage as War and Peace.

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Born Brothers, by Larry Woiwode (Farrar, Straus, 612 pp., $18.95)

Born Brothers, Larry Woiwode’s second novel about the Neumiller family, taken together with its 1975 companion, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, brings the number of densely packed pages devoted to this story to a total of 1,231. If there istobea third volume—and I expect that one is coming—the Neumiller saga will weigh in at about the same tonnage as War and Peace.