Word: circumstantialists
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REUNION, by Merle Miller (345 pp.; Viking; $3.95). Author Miller, whose second novel, That Winter, showed him as a man who could write without having observed, has produced his fourth novel and can now safely be placed with that group of contemporary novelists who might be called Circumstantialists. The Circumstantialist, like the pack rat, cannot bear to throw anything away. Meticulously, he collects and records every circumstance of his characters' lives. Turning over every last scrap of detail, he seems to hope desperately that somewhere he and the reader may catch some glimpse of a real life beneath...
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