Good Hearts

by Reynolds Price

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689119739
• ISBN13: 9780689119736
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Emotionally powerful

Middle-aged Wesley Beavers abandons his middle-aged wife Rosa and heads for points west. He takes up with a younger woman in Nashville. But back home Rosa is raped, and Wesley moves back to be with her. The rapist, Wave Willbanks, is depicted as "the victim of a misguided pathology," and is treated with kindness by the protagonists. (Perhaps too kindly to be totally believable.) This act (could Wave be an angel?) brings Wesley and Rosa back together again as a couple. Price was suffering from cancer when he wrote this novel and was taking powerful drugs - he calls it his druggy novel - and even claims not to remember writing some of it. But Price's wonderful and unique style is in full force, which makes it an interesting and compelling book.