THE NAME OF THE WORLD

The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor at a Midwestern university who has been patient in his grief after an accident takes the lives of his wife and child and has permitted that grief to enlarge him.Michael Reed is living a posthumous life . In spite of outward appearances -- he holds a respectable university teaching position/ he is an articulate and attractive additio n to local social life -- he's a dead man walking.Nothing can touch Reed, nothing can move him, although he observes with a mordant clarity t...[Read more]