Blameless
Thom Lemmons, . . WaterBrook, $12.99 (247pp) ISBN 978-1-4000-7174-6
Lemmons's latest intermingles a contemporary tale about injustice with references to Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and writing, and sprinkles the story with symbolic references to Job. Dr. Alexis Hartnett is a tough, divorced college dean who becomes enamored of the cynical, divorced professor Joe Barnes. Joe has a mysterious past, evinced by a 12-year gap in his teaching experience, and Hartnett's assistant Lucille "Lucy" Conn, who dislikes Joe, is on the warpath to discover his secrets. Snippets from Joe's manuscript on Hawthorne that speak to his tenuous situation at the school are woven throughout, and predictable pearls of wisdom are offered from Alexis's minister's sermons Lemmons (
Reviewed on: 01/29/2007
Genre: Fiction
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