Voices in Fiction

Pritchard, William H., The Hudson Review

Voices in Fiction

SO MANY NOVELS CLAMORING FOR ATTENTION, and this partial roundup is devoted almost entirely to old hands. But first, a first book of stories by a talented young writer.1 In an interview, Nalini Jones numbers among her heroes Chekhov, in whose fiction, she remarks, "just when we imagine all is setded and concluded, he suddenly makes a narrative or descriptive gesture outward"-which gesture moves the story's terrain "toward the unknown, the undiscovered." The most notable thing about her nine stories is that invariably a reader's attempt to predict how any one will come out is doomed. Most of them take place in Santa Clara, an imagined neighborhood in India's …

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Publication information: Article title: Voices in Fiction. Contributors: Pritchard, William H. - Author. Journal title: The Hudson Review. Volume: 60. Issue: 4 Publication date: Winter 2008. Page number: 665+. © Not available. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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