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Robert Goolrick

Author of The Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick, set his new story, Heading Out to Wonderful (Algonquin Books, $24.95) in 1948 rural Virginia, where a young man named Charlie, back from the war, returns with nothing but a suitcase full of money. Charlie’s attraction to the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest woman in town turns first to lust and then to a need to possess her, a need so basic it becomes an all-consuming passion that threatens to destroy everything in its path.  “Goolrick’s tale of doomed love resonates like a folk ballad, with the language of the Blue Ridge Mountains and its people giving this novel its soul. —Publishers Weekly

 

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