http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/arts/evan-connell-88-novelist-in-multiple-genres.html?hpw&_r=0 (Note that for those of us who don't pay for the NYTimes, this will us up one of your ten-per -month allotted free articles.) Connell's Son of the Morning Star remains one of the best books I've ever read.