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...about a teenager led by crazy passion to burn down his girlfriend's house and later bring on the death of her father. (Don't blame him for the Brooke Shields movie.) For A Ship Made of Paper, his eighth novel, Spencer worked with different characters but similar desperations. Daniel is a New York City lawyer who flees back to Leyden, his childhood home on the Hudson River north of the city. It's a place on the literary map somewhere between Cheeverville and Updike Corners, where adultery is in the air like chimney smoke. Daniel brings with...
What love does is bring lovers to their knees, especially the ones additionally weighed down by a world where some black teens are on a local crime spree and the trial of O.J. Simpson is on every TV. What Daniel and Iris now stand to lose are the lives they have constructed to protect themselves from that world. Daniel and Kate have "a levelheaded alliance." She thinks of them as "Swiss bankers of the heart." But after three years in placid Leyden, she has a full inventory of wifely complaints. ("His smile can grate on her as if it were...
...investment banker and a superb provider but one who is ever alert to racial slights, real or imagined, and who looks down his nose a bit at Iris, a bookish idler who can't even settle on a topic for her thesis. She surrenders to adultery in part because Daniel's love promises a refuge from judgments, expectations, even the workaday struggle to be black in a white town. Daniel and Iris are given to reckless sex--in his office, at her house when her husband is away but her 4-year-old son is not--that is made more...
...Daniel M.S. Raper
...Daniel M.S. Raper