What a Heaven's For

Brenda Marshall reads at Nicola's

by Keith Taylor

posted 11/9/2010

In Browning's famous Victorian poem "Andrea del Sarto," the titular speaker, an Italian Renaissance painter, justifies his way with his art by asserting that "a man's reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what's a heaven for?" Brenda Marshall titles her expansive and absorbing new historical novel Dakota: Or What's a Heaven For. Marshall clearly used some

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