TOM BEDLAM By George Hagen Random House. 448 pp. $25.95 George Hagen's second novel, Tom Bedlam, is a big Victorian saga -- earnest, well-intentioned, thoroughly decent, the kind of book you'd like to marry, but not date. All the right ingredients are here: a London sweatshop, a dank tenement hou...
Great Expectations
TOM BEDLAM By George Hagen Random House. 448 pp. $25.95 George Hagen's second novel, Tom Bedlam, is a big Victorian saga -- earnest, well-intentioned, thoroughly decent, the kind of book you'd like to marry, but not date. All the right ingredients are here: a London sweatshop, a dank tenement hou...