Title: No Certain Rest
Product review: Never having read Mr. Lehrer but being an admirer of his work on Public Television I had looked forward to this read. Alas, it proved to be a disappointment.This is an uninspiring look at the battle of Antietam and the search for the identity of a fictional officer who died in the battle. Mr. Lehrer's writing is flat and leaden, his tale predictable, and his characters either too obvious to be interesting (Spaniel) or too far-fetched to be believable (the modern Albritten). Though he writes in the third person, he uses his characters to carry the burden of describing the battle, the history and the surroundings in dialog. This results in "speechy" prose and wooden characters. Situations move slowly and seem contrived. By the end I was far less moved by what seemed to be a subject of real interest of Mr. Lehrer than I would have been by a straight reading of history, or a book like "Unto This Hour" by Tom Wicker.
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