Enjoyable, interesting, well-written, by an author at the top of his form. Like many Hellenga books, this one takes place in the American Midwest, but this is a strange Midwest, with snake-handling religious zealots, a small-town college professor who longs to go back to his anthropology research...
OK, I have now finished, and what I wrote below still holds true. Furthermore, he so very well depicts family relationships: how parents feel as their children grow up, how kids relate to their parents as they grow up, how husband and wife relationships change as time rolls on and how nothing sta...
An exhilarating novel of romance, art, and food in Florence, featuring the beloved Margot Harrington, who graced Robert Hellenga's The Sixteen Pleasures. Margot Harrington's memoir about her discovery in Florence of a priceless masterwork of Renaissance erotica - and the misguided love affair it ...
And I’d like to thank Gleni Bartels (my production editor) for stitching these stories together. Special thanks to the following for helping me to expand my frame of reference to include: New York City (John Sheedy and Marilyn Webb), Vietnam (Richard Stout), embalming (Christopher Hroziencik), mu...
(April–June 1997) Paul’s memorial service, held on Shakespeare’s birthday, was everything a memorial service should be. If you’re part of a small liberal arts college, you don’t need religion. You don’t need a church. The college will provide all the things the people used to expect from a church...