The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel
The panic and horror of the Salem witch trials in Kents novel is conveyed with dead-eyed calm and an occasional tremor of emotion by Mare Winningham, whose tempered, dispassionate voice is not given to great displays of drama. Her melodiousness is pleasing to the ear, and Kents novel becomes a sort of long-form song possessed of many verses and no chorus. At times, the melody overwhelms the meaning, but Winningham is more than capable as a reader, and her reading of Kents sad tale of women accused and accusing emits a hint of deeply buried, untouchable tragedy.A Little, Brown hardcover (Reviews, June 30). (Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.