An unsettling experience. Confounding touching and wellwritten. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Austin Fletcher a disturbed young Vietnam War vet is willed a small house deep in the woods of northern Maine. He comes to own it by the generosity of a brotherinarmsa fellow soldier and confidante Maynard Whittier killed in action by a wayward mortar shell. The rugged landscape of Maine is an intoxicating blend of claustrophobic interiors and endless frozen wastelands. Little by little the myster