CALIFORNIA COUNTRY JOURNAL: Tales of Obsession — by Steve Nadis
I took two books on my trip to California and read them both but in some ways it was like reading the same book twice. The first one, WHITE WIDOW (written by TV news guy Jim Lehrer), was about a Texas bus driver who is secretly obsessed with a female passenger, which leads to a tragic end. His life is destroyed and several people die in the process.
The second book, THIS SWEET SICKNESS (by Patricia Highsmith) is about a New York chemist who is secretly obsessed with a woman, which leads to a tragic end. His life is destroyed and several people die in the process.
I had no idea when I grabbed these two books out of my pile that the story would be essentially the same. Maybe this is the basic story of humanity that is told throughout eternity, with the names and places changed but the rest essentially the same.
