Riven Rock
$250 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed · In dust jacket
London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Eddie Dayan (Photographs) and Pablo Campos (Author. x, [2], 468 pages. Signed on the title page. Dust jacket is in a plastic sleeve. A prized collectible, especially in the increasingly rare London edition. This copy has a bookmark ribbon. Riven Rock probes male-female relationships, the nature of psychiatric care (as it existed in the early twentieth century), and the mix of classes and ethnicities that is modern America. It also shows, above all, how much is to be gained by giving literary treatment to historical characters and events. In Riven Rock, T. C. Boyle transforms two real people from the pages of American history into rich mythic creations whose tortured love and epic story is intimate enough to break our hearts. Boyle anchors his unforgettable tale with the remarkable and courageous Katherine Dexter. Her husband, Stanley McCormick, thirty-one-year-old son of the millionaire inventor of the Reaper, has become schizophrenic and a sexual maniac. Stanley is locked up in his Santa Barbara mansion and forbidden the mere sight of women — above all, his wife. One of America's most imaginative contemporary novelists, Boyle weaves his hallmark virtuoso prose into a masterful epic. Textured with his acclaimed humor, versatility, and imagination, Riven Rock is his most fully realized and compassionate novel to date. Thomas Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948) is an American novelist and s
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Year: 1998
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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