American Owned Love

By Robert Boswell

Book Overview

In his most extraordinary novel yet, the author of the acclaimed Mystery Ride and Crooked Hearts casts an expert net around a group of disparate people--in the form of the powder keg community he... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679432515
• ISBN13: 9780679432517
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Why compare the two works?

Authors must always deal with their past successes and failures. MYSTERY RIDE was a tremendous success; as such, readers will inevitably compare AMERICAN OWNED LOVE to it. But they are vastly different books. One might enjoy both (for a variety of reasons: the good prose and engaging characters in each, for starters). If you believe characters are at the heart of good fiction, you will like this book. If you want to be told how or what to think (or told what the black river has to "mean"), then look elsewhere. Look in your dream journal. Ask your therapist. While you're doing that, Boswell will quietly chip away at better questions: what it means to be human, what love is, what it does to us, and why.