Good Hearts – Reynolds Price

Good Hearts: A Novel, by Reynolds Price. Published in 1988 by Atheneum. First Edition, First Printing, number line commencing at 1. Original unclipped dust jacket. Near fine.

Rosa and Wesley, powerfully magnetic people, have been married for 28 years, with good jobs and a good home. With no clear warning, their marriage breaks one evening in December, and soon they are light years apart. Wesley is in Nashville with a younger woman and all the ghosts he has tried to leave. Rosa is alone at home in Raleigh, when, in the absence of the man who vowed to protect her, she suffers a dark and mysterious assault. Too brave to settle for easy answers, they spend a long winter facing the trials of freedom and duty, madness, and pain. Then, as spring comes, they try to turn again to face one another.