Chris Jones, Tribune: "Cephus Miles (in many ways a cipher, but one that bleeds and cries) finds himself buffeted — mostly by social forces he can't control, from rural Crossroads, N.C., to a Vietnam-era prison to the mean streets of 1970s New York — you also see an encapsulation of most of the nation's fault lines during a tumultuous American century. You also see a full-throated celebration of the American farmer, tied, albeit extricably, to the land."
Friday, December 10, 2010
Home at Court
Chris Jones, Tribune: "Cephus Miles (in many ways a cipher, but one that bleeds and cries) finds himself buffeted — mostly by social forces he can't control, from rural Crossroads, N.C., to a Vietnam-era prison to the mean streets of 1970s New York — you also see an encapsulation of most of the nation's fault lines during a tumultuous American century. You also see a full-throated celebration of the American farmer, tied, albeit extricably, to the land."
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