'The Curfew,' by Jesse Ball: amateur in execution

Jesse Ball's short novel, The Curfew (Vintage; 194 pages; $15) features an epitaph writer, a mute girl, an extended puppet show and a Kafkaesque regime. It's not a bad setup for an indie film, or a novel with a keen...

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