A River So Long
"A River So Longis a lean and dirty dance through the unhooked lives of its characters [who] keep trying to find each other in the mess of contemporary American life. A splendid almost documentary rendering of the way things go these days." -Frederick Barthelme, author ofWaveland, Elroy Nights,andBob the Gambler."Veronica is a true transient--someone who lives in midair, in tall hotels, whose windows show us the rooftops and barge-spliced rivers that are Veronica's only homeland.  We follow her passage with fear, and abiding fascination." -Angela Ball, author of Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds, Quartet, and others.". . . an impressive, disturbing novel.  Thedisjointed narrative mirrors the emptiness that characterizes contemporary life. Everyone knows a Veronica, but few writers have presented her with such vivid realism and pathos as Watson." -Robert Hamblin: Director of Center for Faulkner Studies, author of Mind the Gap, Crossroads, and more."Watson's peripatetic modular fiction packs a helluva punch. Life = an endless river of time. If Mary Gaitskill played Poohsticks with this detritus-impotent husbands, wastrel lovers, and damaged goods-maybe you'd get an improvisation as weighty as this staccato fantasia." -Richard Peabody, editor,Gargoyle Magazine