False Entry

In the vein of Eudora Welty and Charles Dickens, Hortense Calisher''s astounding first novel examines a young man''s detachment from the world—and his struggle to rejoin itPierre Goodman enjoys an idyllic childhood as the son of a widowed dressmaker in post–World War I England. But paradise is ripped from him at age ten when he and his mother immigrate to a small town in Alabama. Yearning to regai...