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...powerful sense of place and the ability to convey great sweeps of time. His weakness is an insistence on covering murals with so much background and foreground that he has learned only a few ways of doing faces. One expression represents nobility, and another fills in the crowd scenes. Pentaquod, the Susquehanna Indian whose migration to the Chesapeake Bay's eastern shore in 1583 begins the new novel, is later seen as Cudjo the rebellious slave. He reappears as George Washington, who visits the bay area after the Revolution, and then as Onkor, the wise and valiant old Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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