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Long Dead Lover

Original price was: $14.95.Current price is: $10.00.

by

Robert Boisvert

Fiction, 270 pages, $14.95 cover price

($10 if ordered from the MSR Online Bookstore)

ISBN: 978-1-59948-119-7

Released: 2008

Love. Nothing frightens me more. And not just in life, but perhaps even more in writing. I have seen the best writers fall prey to the trap of writing about love, that word so empty of anything yet signifying everything.

Maybe you know Robert Boisvert from his work as a news anchor. And maybe it’s his professional experience of meeting and listening to the newsworthy that allows him to see so deeply into the lives of his characters, whether the aging matriarch or the lycanthrope’s spouse.

So many stories today have the technique down, the right words in the right order but say nothing. Boisvert has both the well-crafted style and a substance beneath. Here is the rare writer with both skill and subject. As the trilogy of “Love Upon Reflection” stories, where we see a love triangle through all the players’ eyes, shows us a writer of great empathy.

Boisvert’s vision is aching and razor-sharp, a fresh view of that cursed four-letter word. These stories take us to the highs and lows of society to a Spanish city and the house next door. These stories make us rethink the relationships between man and woman, husband and wife, father and son, mother and daughter, friend and friend. And Boisvert’s voice is so powerful it drowns out the world beyond his stories—here is the vivid and continuous dream of fiction.

Here most of all we have absorbing and entertaining stories not of the sappy or the sentimental but of the beast that keeps us awake at night, that drives our actions, and that lays waste to our dreams.

Dear reader read these stories. Read and love.

—S. Craig Renfroe, Jr.

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