The Boy in the Lake: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)Eric Swanson's brilliant, subtle and evocative novel, The Boy in the Lake, brims with elegant language, compelling dialogue, and universal themes of sexual longing and childhood guilt.The protagonist, a capable mental health professional involved in an unravelling romantic relationship, confronts a childhood rife with a sterile home life, a nascent awakening of his homosexuality, and a series of traumatic events which underscore his feelings of powerlessness and guilt.
Swanson draws his characters compassionately; each has literary integrity and authenticity.Parts of this slim novel are carried by powerful dialogue (in many ways reminiscent of Hemingway); other sections contain absolutely elegant imagery (as if you were reading a prose poem).
For those readers who lament that modern American male authors lack ability to describe and analyze relationships, The Boy in the Lake will be a pleasant reminder that dissecting the heart is not exclusively a female literary occupation.

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