To read Gail Godwin is to touch the very core of human experience. With inimitable grace and aching emotional precision, Godwin probes our own complexities in characters whose lives oscillate between success and struggle, stoic resolve and quixotic temptation, bitter disappointment and small, sacred joys. Now with Evensong, she again translates our...more
A provocative account of sexual addiction and murder is set inside the mind of a violent sex offender now in his twenty-third year of confinement, as told in erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old college girl, presently preying on a young boy herself. Reprint. NYT.