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The romantic
a novel
By Gowdy, Barbara
- ISBN
- 978-0-80507-190-0
- Publisher
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2003
In her last novel, Gowdy plausibly depicted life in Africa from the perspective of elephants (The White Bone). Here she returns to the human realm with an equally convincing tale of two young Canadians bound together by obsessive attachment. Narrator Louise Kirk is grief-stricken when brilliant rebel Abel Richter, the love of her life, dies on her 26th birthday. Looking back, Louis...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
