Heading Out to Wonderful

I loved A Reliable Wife, and Goolrick had me for the first half of Heading Out to Wonderful. But I was so saddened by the unease of the 5 year-old boy taken along to many rendezvous between two lovers. I started to sense that the plot was getting too dark, with no hope of redemption, but it got even......more

I hardly know where to begin. I just finished this book, and I feel as though I haven't resurfaced, as though my eyes are fogged and my mind is still not my own. I haven't been this swept away by a novel in a long time. Goolrick's prose is stunning and spellbinding and the story he weaves is brill......more

Robert Goolrick is a masterful storyteller. He tells stories the old fashioned way: long and languidly, and full of description. Love, especially a great love, never goes out of style. Goolrick delivers. He writes a big love story in a small town. Everyone is involved, right from the first Annual Oy......more

An odd book--a very odd book. I'm rather at a loss as to what to say about it. Heading Out to Wonderful has an intriguing start. Goolrick is quite good at foreshadowing and you want to read on to find out what on earth happened to this narrator. The problem is that it takes soooooo long to get answe......more

I loved A Reliable Wife so was excited to get a copy of Goolrick's newest book. This one is about a stranger, Charlie Beale, who one day appears in a small Virginia town and works his way into the affections of the people. But when he falls for the wife of the town's richest man, we know it's only a......more