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...Reported by Massimo Calabresi, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Elaine Shannon, Douglas Waller and Michael Weisskopf/Washington, David Schwartz/Phoenix, Bruce Crumley/Paris and J.F.O. McAllister/London
...Reported by Massimo Calabresi, James Carney, John F. Dickerson, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller and Adam Zagorin/Washington, Scott MacLeod/Cairo and Andrew Purvis/ Kurdistan
...road has been a rocky one for Waller, 58, who had his private life dragged into the spotlight in 1997 when he left his wife for a blond thirtysomething ranch hand. Even more worrying to loyal Waller fans, Warner Books, which made a mint on Bridges, rejected the sequel, which instead will be published next week by a small Texas press. That's like Paramount passing on Titanic...
...widow, dreaming away the long evenings on her Iowa farm. Bored with retirement and pushing 70, Kincaid sets off in his beloved pickup to see the fateful Roseman Bridge one last time. There's tension in the air, but not because we expect the two lovers to meet again--Waller made it clear in Bridges that they never do. The tension comes from two new characters: Wynn McMillan, a cello-playing old flame of Kincaid's (pre-Francesca), and Carlisle McMillan, their (gasp!) son, who is searching for his dad, who doesn't know he exists...
...worry: Waller has not burned his Bridges. His gift is what it is: he writes about tough men and tough women with tough rows to hoe, characters just human enough to believe in and just godlike enough to fantasize about. And credit where credit is due, it works. Waller calls it "a book of endings," and that's apt. Roads has none of the pounding passion of Bridges but twice the pathos--it's a book about aging, a reprise in a minor key. Or put another way, it's less about the bridges, and more about the water under...