CONTROLLED BURN: Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men
Scott Wolven, . . Scribner, $22 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-6011-4
To say that these beautifully written, deceptively simple stories are loosely connected is to miss a large part of the point. The collection, divided into two geographical sections ("The Northeast Kingdom" and "The Fugitive West"), begins with a man trapped into becoming a drug informant; it ends with another man getting the same treatment from the authorities. All the stories, including three that have been published in recent
Reviewed on: 02/21/2005
Genre: Fiction
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