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Writer: Nancy Lemann; Genre: Fiction
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THE FIERY PANTHEON Nancy Lemann (Scribner, $22) At 28, Grace Stewart considers herself ''a prehistoric fossil buried in an antiquated stratum of the earth's core.'' She's engaged to marry a perfect Southern gentleman, but a ''crazed young man'' threatens to steal her heart. Grace's romantic passivity slackens the pace of this novel of manners, and her Old South patriarchal preoccupations make her a relic in more ways than one. But Lemann's New Orleans aristocrats are hilarious, and her writing -- at once wry and sumptuous -- will glue you to your chair with the intoxicating effect of a mint julep on a sultry summer day. B+
Posted Mar 27, 1998
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