Lost in the sands of time In James Bradley's novel of southern Australia, an archeologist seeks one past but finds another

The Boston Globe | August 8, 1999| | Copyright

WRACK By James Bradley. Holt. 340 pp. $25. Gail Caldwell is the chief book critic of the Globe.

The search for the past, however illusory, is usually an admirable pursuit for writers. When they reach for meaning in yesterday, we call it literature; when they reach toward tomorrow, we call it science fiction. We have Herodotus to thank for this, as well as the detritus left by every century hence. As much as Einstein might protest, what's already gone seems eminently more concrete and knowable than what hasn't yet occurred.

These mutable issues of time -- its promises, deceits, and forever ...

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