by Cindy | Jan 17, 2010 | Bad Books, Fiction
(This review first appeared in July 2008) Rating: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski. Ecco (2008), 576 pages. I heard about The Story of Edgar Sawtelle long before it was published, due to early rave reviews billing it as “An American...
by Cindy | Sep 26, 2009 | Bad Books, Fiction
Rating: A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick. Algonquin (2009), 291 pages. Goolrick’s novel is set in rural Wisconsin in the early 1900s—a time period and location I am most definitely interested in. And the plot involves St. Louis opium dens, sex,...