Lovely, lovely story about love. The book just took my breath way.Sometimes I feel my mind wandering when reading but not this book. Every sentence says something important about the story. The reviews on the book's cover uses the word 'sparse' and I agree. Very clean, clear and written in a way that annoyed me when I had to put it down. I didn't want to interrupt my reading it from beginning to end. Been reading the Spenser series from the beginning, The Godwulf Manuscript, and this was written after the 11th of the Spenser novels. It was a definate change of pace from everything Robert B. Parker has written and I have read thus far. I found myself looking at the cover from time to time seeing for myself that this was a Parker novel because I've been so used to other Parker's writing.Great book and who can quarrel over the subject: the love of another.
Look at this old book I found at the library while going through the fiction collection: I read the description and of course grabbed it: 1950s, boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl-tries-to-get-her-back love story. Robert B. Parker is known for his detective novels (Spenser For Hire), which I've never read. This guy--they call him Boonie--falls totally in love with this girl in college in Boston, but when he goes to the Korean war, he loses her. He drifts across the country from job to job, getting drunk, and hits rock bottom in L.A. Two things turn him around: the thought of her, and a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald. Boonie gets his life back together and heads back to Boston.Read-a-likes: The Fires of Spring by James A. Michener; The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead; The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
What do You think about Love And Glory (1984)?
This romance is satisfying in the way Parker's Spencer novels are satisfying: The good guy is going to pick a path, stick to it, and everything's going to come out for the right and the good in the end. At least that's what you think until your brain kicks in. And then you realize this is a novel not about love, but obsession. Boone's disregard for everything and everyone but Jennifer is taken to crazy levels - the utter disregard for the husband, the child and so on. This is only okay in a Park
—Jenn
