American Owned Love [Import] [Hardcover]

Robert Boswell (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Knopf 1997-03-25; 1ST edition (1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0704380609
• ISBN-13: 978-0704380608
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,859,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why compare the two works?, May 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: American Owned Love (Hardcover)

Authors must always deal with their past successes and failures. MYSTERY RIDE was a tremendous success; as such, readers will inevitably compare AMERICAN OWNED LOVE to it. But they are vastly different books. One might enjoy both (for a variety of reasons: the good prose and engaging characters in each, for starters). If you believe characters are at the heart of good fiction, you will like this book. If you want to be told how or what to think (or told what the black river has to "mean"), then look elsewhere. Look in your dream journal. Ask your therapist. While you're doing that, Boswell will quietly chip away at better questions: what it means to be human, what love is, what it does to us, and why.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but no "Mystery Ride", August 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: American Owned Love (Paperback)

I couldn't put it down but once I did, after I finished it, it didn't stick with me. Interesting characters and plot but what was the black river all about? Sorry, must have missed the symbolism there...

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining but not extraordinary, August 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: American Owned Love (Paperback)

An enjoyable read but not as haunting as "Mystery Ride." The characters were well developed for the most part (my favorite was Henry) but it didn't seem to go where it could have. And what was the meaning of the black river? Think I missed something there....a good book to check out at the library, but I wouldn't encourage buying it.