Cornell Alumni Magazine Calls Roxie & Fred "An Unconventional Romance"

Here's Cornell Alumni Magazine's review of Roxie & Fred by Richard Alther:Alther, a novelist and painter who splits his time between California and Vermont, sets his fourth book in a woodsy cabin, which becomes the setting for an unconventional romance between eighty-eight-year-old Roxie and forty-eight-year-old Fred. When they meet in a drawing class, they form a friendship that quickly evolves into a passionate affair. “Roxie eclipses all else,” Alther writes in Fred’s third-person narration. “He regards her an angel, himself an ox. How untenable his passing fancy, but for now, hold on tight.”