It was just a story about despair

4. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

It may even be appropriate to say it is also a story about passions, about needs, about desires -- the emotional as much as the physical. No, the emotional MORE than the physical. This novel spins a tale not unknown, a simply written tale of love desired, love lost, love never truly had, love found in unlikely places. The dialogue is spare, both in quantity and in sentence length, because this is a tale of inner motivations, and we rarely say what we truly mean. The prose is sometimes truncated and to the point, sometimes long and convoluted and bordering on rambling. It's often difficult to bear witness to the heartache, and the heartache at times seems never-ending. Even up to the last page, you wonder if any good comes out of it.

I found this to be a rich and splendid piece.