3/10/08

Book of the Week #11

Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction: A Novel by Robert J. Begiebing. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2003)

This is a story of art and obsession set in 18th century New Hampshire. It is the final volume in an historical New England trilogy that includes The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin and The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton. Robert Begiebing is on the faculty at Southern New Hampshire University, a graduate of UNH, a member of the NH State Council on the Arts, and (according to Annie Proulx in the New York Times) a "gifted writer with an extraordinary feeling for the past."

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