Book Review Of Coinage Of Commitment By Rob Costelloe
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- September 27th, 2009 |
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The press release bills this book as a love account, I disagree, it is a account about love. Specifically one man’s examine for an everlasting love. We meet Wayne Cavanaugh as a sophmore attending the rather blue collar Drexel College where he is perusal engineering. Finished flashbacks author Rob Costelloe explores Wayne’s adolescent life and his fascination with the concept of love. More specifically his quest to accept love to a higher plane, an aesthetic that few people can appreciate, let alone achieve.
In a chance encounter following a purse snatching Wayne meets pretty Penn Country junior Nancy Hammond. This launches Wayne off on his odyssey to find that elusive perfect love. Although he is convinced that Nancy is the one, and Nancy certainly reciprocates the feelings, they have many hurdles to cross, not least of which is the disparity in their cultural backgrounds. Nancy comes from a rich and influential family, piece Wayne is from a real labor one. Of course this problem matters little to the adolescent lovers, however their families and to a certain extent their friends are a entire different situation. Any analyze Wayne as an opportunist piece others are less kind and lean towards cerebration him a gold digger.
With grit and determination the couple brave the storms and as time passes most of the protagonists grudgingly accept the pair and their love for each other. The families tho’ remain at loggerheads with their children. One abstraction that popped into my head piece reading Coinage Of Commitment was had the roles been reversed with him being from an affluent family and her the poor country girl the relationship would have been viewed as charming, how antic our elite is. We have become conditioned to a set of rules, or mores, and when we divagate outside the boundaries the walls come up.
It is interesting to follow as this couple matures, Nancy gradually employed on elevating Wayne’s rank, and Wayne piece not openly resisting makes attempts, if not to actually cylinder the period of change, at least adagio its relentless progress.
The question is, is this perfect love, and can it last a lifetime? To discover the answer you will have to read the book. Rob Costelloe has created a real cerebration provoking book that plays on many levels. Part love account, part cultural commentary, and part exploration of one mans quest for perfection. The acceptable of the writing is of the highest quality. He states in his biography that he has been writing since he was 8 years old, and that does not attack me, he is a accomplished and glorious wordsmith.
The ending of the book comes with a real antic convolute in the fib, and one that will attack the reader.
About Rob Costelloe: After college, besides pursuing an engineering career in the Gulf Coast region, Rob Costelloe wrote more stories, a teeth-cutting, first novel, and a little poetry. By now, his interest focused on the question of what romantic love can achieve in people’s lives. To pursue this theme, he affected the activity of many authors and filmmakers. He and his woman live near Houston, TX.