Niagara Falls All over Again

"[T]hough the novel never seems overly serious or thematically overweight, along the way McCracken manages to consider an impressive number of substantial ideas....With so much going for it, and in light of the obvious talent of its author, it's surprising, then, that NIAGARA FALLS ALL OVER AGAIN isn't more compelling--that a certain effort may be required to pick up the book again, once you've put it down....[T]he difficulty may be that one of the book's virtues--Mose's chatty amiability--ultimately works against the narrative as a whole. For all its expansive generosity, Mose's voice proves limiting, only modestly capable of the enormous variations in tone that are necessary in a novel that boldly commingles the madcap atmosphere of the burlesque stage with tragedy on the home front."McCracken, Elizabeth is the author of 'Niagara Falls All over Again' with ISBN 9780385336482 and ISBN 0385336489.