Love in Excess National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1988) your dreams

your dreams

The romantic ideal of African farmers -- rural villagers in touch with nature

leading with fairness and communicating principles clearly

James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed

And if only criminals are meant to be slated

Love in Excess National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1988) your dreamsLove in Excess is a well crafted novel in which the claims of love and ambition are pursued through multiple storylines until the heroine engineers a melodramatic conclusion. Love in Excess and its reception provide a lively and valuable record of the challenge that female desire posed to social decorum.