"Rarely has a marriage so come alive in a work of fiction. . . So intense, beautifully written, shining with 'felt life, ' it is truly gripping--riveting." --Joyce Carol Oates Abigail McCormick and Ray Stark are both poets, married nearly twenty-five years in what has always been a passionate relationship despite deep class differences. Ray is the son of West Virginia coal miners and was abused as a child--but now he is a distinguished...