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The Weatherman Temptation

By Jon Wiener
Four new novels revisit a particularly tumultuous era of American history


BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Eat the Document
by Dana Spiotta
Scribner, 2006 291 pp $24

American Woman
by Susan Choi
HarperCollins Publishers, 2003
369 pp $24.95

The Darling
by Russell Banks
HarperCollins Publishers, 2004
392 pp $25.95

The Company You Keep
by Neil Gordon
Viking, 2003 406 pp $25.95

THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD nomination in October for Eat the Document, a novel about the Weather Underground by Dana Spiotta, came at a time when several other strong novels addressed similar themes. Russell Banks’s The Darling, Susan Choi’s Ameri...

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