In his new novel, William Goldman proves that the spectacular success of his most recent novel, Boys and Girls Together, and that of his script for the film Harper, were not single passing events. For The Thing of It Is... not only maintains the high quality of his work but also proves his unusual versatility. Boys and Girls Together, a huge and complex novel, had "life, power, beauty, ugliness and truth" (San Francisco Chronicle). The Thing of It Is... is a closely woven, sharply focused story of a young couple vacationing in London and Rome and Venice, in the hope of salvaging their faltering marriage.
Throughout, Mr. Goldman demonstrates his mastery in this short fast-paced novel, without a wasted scene and with a minimum of characters. The quarrels, the agonies, the bickerings and the swift change of moods of Amos and Lila McCracken are fiercely and poignantly familiar. Yet Mr. Goldman renders his domestic crisis as freshly as he does the characters of Amos's and Lila's precocious and irresistible little girl. This strong and moving novel attains a climax that is shattering in the outrageously sad and funny reaches of its inimitably fallible humanness.
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