A not very good novella by Peter Straub, that might have turned into a better short story or a worse novel. Instead, we have this middle length story that is mysterious in some good ways, and wasteful and annoyingly crass in others. Ballard and Sandrine, he 65 or so, she 20 years younger…oftentimes lover, always confusing etc etc. We find ourselves on a boat trip on the Amazon on a boat in which the two lovers have been many times before, and in fact their […]