Each story is a vision of life, alternately dark and joyous, gritty and hopeful. With this prize-winning collection, Boswell proves himself a mature craftsperson, weaving stories both poignant and profound. Each story revolves around characters with a choice to make, and Robert Boswell renders these characters in all of their fine, vulnerable, and relentless attributes. There are stories of men at war, of lovers trying to begin a relationship, of others trying to sustain their love. Thomas seems to have died at Flodden leaving a son, David Boswell (d. In "Dancing in the Movies" a college student returns to his hometown, where he finds his girlfriend-a heroin addict-and tries to convince her to overcome her habit. Series VIII, Boswells of Fife, contains papers of fifteenth-century Boswells. "The Darkness of Love" narrates three days in the life of a black policeman, distressed by his inner fears of racism and irresistibly attracted by his wife's sister. In the end, this book probes individual impulse and responsibility, creating stories so unerringly authentic that they become-irrepressibly-part of everyone who reads them. Often there is no right or wrong, and the characters' motives for the choices they make are as diverse as the childhood memories they cherish and abhor. Encompassing a vast gamut of personalities, situations, and emotions, these stories penetrate our motives for doing what is right.
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