This is as fine a contemporary tale of blind devotion and betrayal as you'll find at bookstores or in your local library (that's where I found it, anyway).Claire Marvel is a great read with a capital "G." Just writing about it makes me want to read it again, but I can't, at least not right now, b...
Sometimes I feel a masochistic urge to wrap myself up in a totally depressing book. When these moods come on, give me Russell Banks' supremely morose "Affliction" or "The Sweet Hereafter" and let me wallow in the protagonists' misery, if you please. When I read about the subject matter (which s...
I read this because I loved another of this author's books, The Commoner. However, this was not nearly as good. At one point I almost stopped reading it, but I will admit that I'm glad that I kept on reading to the end. Somehow this almost seemed like a bunch of linked short stories. One chap...