Or maybe luxuriate is the wrong term. Nightwoods is unsettling stuff, tense and eerie and brutal. At the center of Frazier’s tale — set in Appalachia in the early 1960s — is Luce ...

NIGHTWOODS By Charles Frazier Random House, $26 259 pages Novelist Charles Frazier clearly agrees with Robert Frost’s description of woods as “lovely, dark and deep,” especially the dark and ...