A review by lorinlee
Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas

4.0

Mark Sarvas's protagonist Harry is a lost soul. His wife has died and he slowly finds his way, although he doesn't know that he's grieving at first. Sarvas has some marvelous ways of showing us Harry as he flounders about, trying to help an overweight waitress at a restaurant in hopes of snagging the younger waitress. He shows us, for instance, Harry opening the storeroom where he has kept all the purchases which reflected his passions but which his wife ultimately disagreed with. At times Sarvas comes up with some beautiful phrases which, I think, any writer would love to have written---certainly I would. In the storeroom he surveys "his past passions, his past selves, all represented and rejected....He wanders amid the comfort of his abandoned selves and wonders how his latest self will fare without Anna to render judgment...." Ultimately Harry comes to understand the truth of his marriage, of his role in what led to her demise, and how things might have been different had he spoken up.