The Good Life
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The Good Life
On the very first page, Thurm ignites the engine of her plot when Roger Goldenhar, on a family vacation in Florida, secretly buys a semiautomatic pistol. The Good Life could almost be an illustration of the Chekhovian dictum that a gun intro_x0002_duced in the first act must be fired before the curtain falls, as the reader avidly turns the pages, eager to discover which violent solution Roger will choose as a means of escaping his financial and personal distress. —The New York Times