It's funny -- I didn't find that. Again, without giving too
much away, we're talking about a man who starts the book
feeling like he's coming apart, disintegrating; then he finds
something that gives him purpose and hunger and drive again,
and it drives him to do something terrible; and then he is
driven to atone for that terrible action, and the atonement
is terrible too. He gets punished plenty in my eyes, and his
emotional reaction (fear, shame) seems about right to
me.
But of course each reader reads a different book; each reader
constructs the character in his head slightly differently. So
I can't say your reading of it is wrong -- just that I didn't
have the reaction you describe.
--Charles
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Ollerman"
<ollerman@...> wrote:
>
> I just finished "Robbie's Wife" and enjoyed the
writing immensely.
Without
> spoiling anything though, I never felt that Jack
Stone addressed
his actions
> and the consequences thereof with what I would
consider natural
emotions and
> responses. So this didn't ring true to me at all and
left me with
an
> unfilled void.
>
> My question for Charles, which I hope may be of
interest to the
list, is
> whether he found the same thing? And if so, did he
address this in
anyway
> with the author?
>
>
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