Partial Faiths

Spiritual conversions figure heavily in such novels as Thomas Pynchon''s Vineland, Toni Morrison''s Paradise, and Louise Erdrich''s Love Medicine. What connects such varied works is that their convert-characters are disenchanted with secularism yet apprehensive of dogmatic religiosity. Partial Faiths is the first study to identify a body of contemporary fiction in such terms, take the measure of i...