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Title: Discover this writer.
Review: Charles Dickinson is a wonderful writer who should have a much larger readership than he seems to. He employs his clear and winning prose to describe the lives of ordinary people living their daily lives, but there's always an interesting little kink in those lives. In "The Widows' Adventures," two elderly sisters leave their suburban Illinois homes for a trip to Los Angeles. One of the sisters is blind. She's the one who's driving. The sensitive protagonist of "Waltz in Marathon" is a loan shark. The artist hero of "A Shortcut in Time" lives in the town he was born and raised in, yet on a familiar neighborhood path he meets people slipping back and forth in time. For a man with many regrets, there is the temptation to try to tweek the past. Unfortunately, he is not the only person with this compulsion.I recommend this novel highly, and I envy anyone picking up a Charles Dickinson book for the first time. A banquet awaits you.
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