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Title: Maillard Embarks On His Masterpiece
Review: Readers of "Gloria" and "The Clarinet Polka" will be glad to know of this book, the first of a projected quartet--really a single novel being published in four parts. Returning once again to the fictional setting of most of his novels, Raysburg, West Virginia, Maillard traces the development of John Dupre, as he grows into the person he is pretending to be. Maillard is unafraid of what is in the human heart, and he is masterful at communicating emotion--if anything, Maillard's art form must be empathy. He deserves a bigger audience, and perhaps this will garner it for him.
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