Winslow in Love Book

I'm not sure whether I was drawn to this because of the protagonist's obviously awesome name (hah!) or the Montana setting...actually, it was a gift and it looked like a quick read. Since I just finished rereading Oryx and Crake before I read The Year of the Flood and that did NOT go quickly (although I still really enjoy it) I really wanted something I could blow through quickly. And this book was definitely quick. To be honest, I liked it more than I thought I would. It wasn't the most original story in the world (depressed college professor who drinks too much, ends up falling for angsty twenty-year-old, they talk a lot about LIFE and TRUTH and what is REAL and share a lot of scotch) but Richard Winslow somehow still seems real to me. And Canty gets some things right -- some of his descriptions about fishing, and about writing, for instance. This book didn't change my life, but it was a more satisfying read than I thought it would be. (I also think Canty wrote himself into a better story than he started with; the writing was definitely better near the end than it was at the beginning.)