Crooked Hearts
by Robert Boswell
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Edward and Jill Warren have always done what they thought was best for their four children. However, their good intentions result in emotionally repressed children who find it difficult to break away and grow up. A family secret is revealed and results in tragedy, which forces them to face each other and life with new independence and maturity.Tags
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Robert Boswell is Professor of English at New Mexico State University and is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He lives with his wife, the writer Antonya Nelson, and their children in Las Cruces, New Mexico , and Telluride, Colorado.
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Tom Warren
- Important places
- Yuma, Arizona, USA
- Epigraph
- O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbor
With your crooked heart.
- W. H. Auden - Dedication
- For Annelle and Albert and for Toni
- First words
- Once when I was eleven years old, my father asked me not to buy him cigarettes, even if he begged.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Tom could not stop crying.
His sobbing rocked the bed and woke Marriet. - Blurbers
- Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Original language
- English
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- Members
- 79
- Popularity
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- (4.18)
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- UPCs
- 1
