![]() The book is also a very personal one, which is clear even before beginning the novel. ![]() To convey these many voices, Boswell uses what he calls “unreliable omniscience.” It’s a story about the United States in the 21st Century, about how we transform ourselves, the definition of success, the pressure to conform-all of which tend to make us less happy. ![]() The book centers around a counselor living in San Diego, his colleagues, friends and family, and many clients with various mental and physical disabilities. His most ambitious novel, the book encompasses many voices–something that has marked all of his novels–but this book uses voice and form in a very different way. This fall his seventh novel, Tumbledown, came out in paperback. Over the course of books like Mystery Ride, Century’s Son, American Owned Love, and Living To Be 100, Boswell has shown himself to be a writer constantly changing his approach and writing different books. He’s a versatile writer with many novels, short story collections, nonfiction books to his name. ![]() ![]() Robert Boswell has had an enviable career. Though he’s not a bestselling author, Robert Boswell has had a long list of awards he’s received over his three decades long career including two NEA Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN West Award for Fiction, and the John Gassner Prize for Playwrighting. ![]()
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