![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The "Mystery Ride" (from a Springsteen song) is marriage, and here is "the almost inexhaustible mystery of love found and lost." Brimming with high ideals, Angela and Stephen Landis wed in the '60s and moved to a farm in Iowa, where their daughter Dulcie was born. The novel reflects Boswell's increasing maturity and wisdom its characters-especially an exasperating teenager-are vivid and fresh, its truths poignant and penetrating. This new work makes a brilliant return to the subject Boswell writes about with distinctive tenderness and humor: a marriage that has fractured, although the love husband and wife once felt for each other endures as a touchstone in their lives. His next book, The Geography of Desire, was earnest but inchoate with his need to make a statement. Boswell's memorable second novel, Crooked Hearts, about a dsyfunctional family, established his reputation on the literary scene. ![]()
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