Heaping Stones – Book Review

Heaping Stones, Rob Woodard, Burning Shore Press, 2005, ISBN 0976885905 Reviewed by way of Paul Lappen Set in provide-day Long Beach, CA, that is the tale of Rob, in his past due thirties, and nonetheless an unpublished creator. He is having a difficult time coping with the abrupt strolling-out of Maggie, his spouse, a number of months in the past. Rob turns out locked right into a cycle of self-hatred and drunken rages.

Veronica has a loose and open sexual nature which turns out to make up for a vanity stage of 0. It is as though Veronica feels that her simplest price as a person is in response to what's among her legs. After a 3-day binge of intercourse, dozing in combination and extra self-loathing on Rob’s phase, he in any case shall we all of it out, and bodily throws Veronica out of his condo. Rob busses tables at an area eating place to pay the expenses. A fellow worker is Rachael, a vivacious contemporary highschool graduate with a candy and blameless nature. They interact in a few playful flirting all the way through paintings hours, which will get their fellow workers to gossiping. Even higher, from Rob’s perspective, is that Rachael enjoys studying Literature (she is definitely conversant in Scandinavian creator Knut Hamsun), one thing approximately which Veronica is de facto clueless. Rachael evokes Rob to take some other take a look at a few of his previous writing makes an attempt, stashed in a drawer. Her candy nature starts to turn Rob that there truly is a mild at the tip of his emotional tunnel. This is a brief novel, however an uncomprising one, shifting from sour to just about constructive. It displays the difference among “sexual” love and “real” love. There would possibly had been a little bit an excessive amount of emphasis at the intercourse scenes, however this continues to be an excellent piece of writing that may be price studying. Paul is a contract guide reviewer whose site, www.deadtreesreview.com has over six hundred guide opinions on all topics, with an emphasis on small press books.

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