Robert Goolrick wrote literary fiction and memoir concerned with desire, secrecy, class, violence and the damage people carry into intimate relationships. A Reliable Wife is set in early twentieth-century Wisconsin, where wealthy widower Ralph Truitt advertises for a wife and receives Catherine Land, who arrives with plans of her own. The novel develops through deception, obsession and the bleak isolation of its rural setting. Heading Out to Wonderful moves to post-war Virginia and follows a stranger whose arrival disrupts a small town through an affair and its consequences. The Fall of Princes turns to 1980s New York finance, tracing excess and collapse among men who treat money and appetite as measures of identity. Goolrick also wrote The End of the World as We Know It, a memoir about a troubled Southern family and adulthood. His work fits literary fiction, historical fiction and psychologically dark domestic drama, usually with atmosphere and character taking precedence over fast action. Read more Less
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