Riven Rock
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“As romantic as it is informative, as colorful as it is convincing. Boyle combines his gift for historical re-creation with his dazzling powers as a storyteller.”—The Boston Globe
It is the dawn of the twentieth century when the beautiful, budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls in love with Stanley McCormick, son of a millionaire inventor. The two wed, but before the marriage is consummated, Stanley experiences a nervous breakdown and is diagnosed as a schizophrenic sex maniac. Stanley is locked up in his family’s Santa Barbara mansion and forbidden the mere sight of women—above all, his wife.
Throughout her career as a scientist and a suffragette, Katherine’s faith never waiters: that, one day, one of the many psychiatrists she hires to try to cure her husband will free him of his demons.
Blending social history with some of the most deliciously dark humor ever written, T.C. Boyle employs his hallmark virtuoso prose to tell the story of a love affair that is as extraordinary as it is unforgettable.
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T. C. Boyle is one of the few authors, who can write about every subject he likes - and I still enjoy the book (to say the truth: in the moment I can’t think of another one). Thought with this book, I had in the beginning my difficulties. The first third, I did not get into the book; I did not like Eddy O‘Kane in his misogyny, and the chapters describing Stanley‘s childhood and youth were to disturbing. In the second part, I was looking forward to the chapters with the flashbacks, because I found the live at Riven Rock and Eddy’s problems not really interesting. Only in the last part I also got interested in the narrated present. Over all I can say, I liked the book, but not as much as Boyle‘s other novels.
Description
“As romantic as it is informative, as colorful as it is convincing. Boyle combines his gift for historical re-creation with his dazzling powers as a storyteller.”—The Boston Globe
It is the dawn of the twentieth century when the beautiful, budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls in love with Stanley McCormick, son of a millionaire inventor. The two wed, but before the marriage is consummated, Stanley experiences a nervous breakdown and is diagnosed as a schizophrenic sex maniac. Stanley is locked up in his family’s Santa Barbara mansion and forbidden the mere sight of women—above all, his wife.
Throughout her career as a scientist and a suffragette, Katherine’s faith never waiters: that, one day, one of the many psychiatrists she hires to try to cure her husband will free him of his demons.
Blending social history with some of the most deliciously dark humor ever written, T.C. Boyle employs his hallmark virtuoso prose to tell the story of a love affair that is as extraordinary as it is unforgettable.
Book Information
Posts
T. C. Boyle is one of the few authors, who can write about every subject he likes - and I still enjoy the book (to say the truth: in the moment I can’t think of another one). Thought with this book, I had in the beginning my difficulties. The first third, I did not get into the book; I did not like Eddy O‘Kane in his misogyny, and the chapters describing Stanley‘s childhood and youth were to disturbing. In the second part, I was looking forward to the chapters with the flashbacks, because I found the live at Riven Rock and Eddy’s problems not really interesting. Only in the last part I also got interested in the narrated present. Over all I can say, I liked the book, but not as much as Boyle‘s other novels.