THE FOUNTAIN

Will Combrey is Casey Stowe's old flame. When he dumped her, her lifetime best friend, Michael, put her back together. Twenty years later Casey is a mother, contentedly married to Michael, a steady, decent human being, when Will reenters her life. He is a twice-divorced thoughtless, selfish, successful man, and he wants her back. The most annoying thing about this book is that it takes itself seriously. These people are so self-involved and shallow that we really don't care what happens to them. Only Ruth Ann Phimister's graceful performance keeps things from falling apart. Phimister is a fine actress. She has found the humanity in her characters, giving us another case of an excellent reading making an ordinary novel worth listening to. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 02]