"In this innovative novel, urban and rural, male and female, spiritual and material, knowledge and ignorance, presence and absence, the explosive violence of extreme right- and extreme left-wing American politics face and mirror each other. As Two Fields reweaves certain ancient rules and myths, it inscribes the cultural landscape of recent history externally, in social and political events, and internally, inside the minds of its characters. That monologue interieur however creates a dislocation which is never recovered; characters may speak each other's minds or discover the thoughts of other characters in odd places. A kind of collective consciousness, akin in many respects to the writing of Virginia Woolf, is born among a disparate group of highly defined individuals. However, Two Fields is written in several different modes, utilizing in one book the history of fiction from traditional narrative to disjunctive narrative to poetic narrative to poem itself, the novel's origin. As the reader reads, it increasingly becomes insignificant what something this novel is about, and is increasingly important that the novel itself is something."--BOOK JACKET.