You never know what author Thomas Mallon will take on next.
In his novel Henry and Clara, he wrote about the couple who were with the Lincolns on the night the president was assassinated. He's written about people and their diaries in A Book of One's Own. Manhattan in the 1920s is the milieu of Bandbox. And small-town Michigan, 1948, sets the scene of Dewey Defeats Truman. One common denominator: Mallon likes to write about people who are incidentally caught up in history.
His new book, arriving in stores later this month, is called Fellow Travelers. It's set in Washington D.C. during the McCarthy era and, while the city is busy rooting out Communism and so-called sexual deviation, the characters are busy indulging in the latter.
written on Tuesday Apr 3, 2007
Commies,
deviants,
book.
