American Owned Love (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Boswell
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Gay Schaefer, Sander, Rita, Heart, Cecilia Calzado, Enrique, Rudy Salazar, Tito Tafoya, Denny
- Genres: Long fiction, Regional fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Middle classes, Marriage, Poverty or poor people, Immigration or emigration, Rivers or waterways, Mexican Americans, Southwest, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Aliens, illegal, Basketball
- Locales: New Mexico
A novelist who introduces in the first pages of his novel both a river that turns black and a character named Heart is, it must be admitted, willing to take large risks. Readers, after all, may assume the right to hold the writer to the promise of something extraordinary that such an opening seems to imply. If, in American Owned Love, Robert Boswell has not quite written a novel that can be described as extraordinary, he has succeeded in writing something that has its own value: a novel about the extraordinary, about where and when, and in what relation to the ordinary, it may...
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