Make a Wish

With MAKE A WISH, the best-selling author of "Paradise Falls and Praise the Human Season" writes his most personal book to date-the compassionate, comic and utterly convincing tale of a Midwestern news commentator and the most tragic news story of his career. The words of noted critic Maxwell Geismar, which appear on the cover, praise Robertson's last novel, Miss MARGARET RIDPATH AND THE DISMANTLING OF THE UNIVERSE, but his comment applies to all of this fine writer's work. In addition to Sherwood Anderson, Robertson has been compared to William Faulkner, Anthony Trollope, John O'Hara, John Gardner, and Thomas Wolfe, for his dazzling ability to capture the rhythms of day-to-day life. In MAKE A WISH, Robertson once again makes us ". . . really care about his people and their intertwined lives...... Philip Moore, news commentator for an Ohio television station, is a public figure whose concerns are largely private. Grace McElroy is a private citizen-or was; until she committed a horrifying public act that made her at once a household name and Phil's private obsession. Phil's story unfolds through -a series of six strikingly down-to-earth vignettes of contemporary life. Grace's story is revealed in a powerfully affecting play about a woman who murders her own children. The lives of Phil and Grace touch briefly. A sudden, shattering climax in the final novella depicts the public reaction to Grace's crime, and Phil's fascination with her. This description may be from another edition of this product.