Women in a River Landscape A Novel in Dialogues and Soliloquies

"Most unnerving to an American reader today are the elements of identity that form Boll's characters and the issues and the longings that compel them....Questions of religion and aristocratic connection dominate the characters to an alarming extent, and often they make 'Women in a River Landscape' read like a novel of the 1930's....[The book] is burdened by the difficulties inherent in a novel in dialogue. The translation seems faithful enough, but the prose is somewhat stilted, as the reader must be given information the characters would not normally give themselves or one another. Nevertheless, the writing bears the stamp of one of the most genuinely high-minded men of letters this century has produced..."Böll, Heinrich is the author of 'Women in a River Landscape A Novel in Dialogues and Soliloquies', published 1995 under ISBN 9780810112056 and ISBN 0810112051.