Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/sequential-art/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0003 407536 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/sequential-art/engine/rss.php:0 Robert Boswell - Free Library Land Online - Sequential Art https://sequential-art.library.land/ ru Robert Boswell - Free Library Land Online - Sequential Art DataLife Engine The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards https://sequential-art.library.land/robert-boswell/424103-the_heyday_of_the_insensitive_bastards.html https://sequential-art.library.land/robert-boswell/424103-the_heyday_of_the_insensitive_bastards.html The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
An exhilarating collection, as brash as it is wise, by one of our great storytellers
Set mainly in small, gritty American cities, each of these stories is a world unto itself. A man's obsessive visits to a fortuneteller leave him nearly homeless. Time collapses as two marriages slowly dissolve. And in the searing title story, a young man recounts the summer he spent in a mountain town, squatting in a borrowed house with a loose band of slackers, abstaining from all drugs (other than mushrooms) - and ultimately asking just what kind of harm we can do to one another.
]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:24:40 +0200 Tumbledown https://sequential-art.library.land/robert-boswell/435640-tumbledown.html https://sequential-art.library.land/robert-boswell/435640-tumbledown.html Tumbledown
Robert Boswell's first novel since Century's Son showcases once again his "dazzling technical skill, intelligence and moral seriousness" (The New York Times Book Review)
At age thirty-three, James Candler seems to be well on the road to success. He's in line for a big promotion at Onyx Springs, the treatment facility where he's a therapist. He has a fiancée, a sizable house, and a Porsche.
     But . . . he's falling in love with another woman, he's underwater on his mortgage, and he's put his hapless best friend in charge of his signature therapeutic program. Even the GPS on his car can't seem to predict where he should turn next. And his clients are struggling in their own hilarious, heartbreaking ways to keep their lives on track. How can he help them if he can't help himself?
     In Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated.
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