Dreamways

In his enormously compelling and tremendously disconcerting novel, The Life and Times of Captain N. (1993. New York: Alfred A. Knopf), author Douglas Glover tells a brutally-paced, hair-raising tale of lives and cultures in conflict during the American Revolutionary War. The war zone where the story takes place is the forest lands of 1700’s New York state along the Canadian border. This forest is a borderland, a violently contested space where not just armies, but also attitudes and relationships come into blood-curdling and heart-wrenching conflict.  read more »