Reviewed by Gary
Howard & Joan
Reviewed by Gary Howard & Joan
How can you not like a story that has it all; love, lust, betrayal, jealousy, revenge? This story by Reuben is set tightly within a narrow framework with an unbelievable set of coincidences that are tragic for all concerned. Howard and Joan have a love/hate relationship. When I first read the story is seemed just another doomed couple who couldn't have a normal love life.
Howard is the quintessential jealous husband who plots to catch his unfaithful wife in the act and wreak havoc on her young paramour.
Joan, by contrast, is the all too trite battered wife who finally tires of the fights and grows bored of their love life.Here enters poor Walter who is guilty of nothing more than being in tune with his body which is his career as a body builder at the local gym. A perfect life, until he exceeds his own limits and falls into the middle of an enraged husband who mistakes him for his wife's lover.
Reuben manages to blend well the moronic, ironic and iconoclastic elements of his story and tops it off with a surprise ending. Will have victims of unfaithfulness cheering, interlopers into connubial bliss fearing wrath and unfortunates caught in the crossfire wincing.
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