In this love story set in North Carolina and Tennessee, Wesley Beaver plans to abandon his thirty-year marriage to Rosacohe Mustian, but his decision forces them to confront questions of faith, commitment and will, love and good heartedness North Carolinian Price published his first novel, A Long & Happy Life , in 1962; more than 25 years and 15 books later, Good Hearts is not exactly a sequel so much as a revisit to the lives of Rosacoke and Wesley Beavers, the young lovers of that first novel. After 30 years of marriage, Wes leaves home at Christmastime in a fit of malaise, leaving Rosa alone to become the victim of a young rapist. Price is a mature and stylish storyteller who imbues his characters with layers of human dimension, and his view of marriage in the autumn of life is poignantly on-target. A richly successful novel that will be welcomed in most fiction collections. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.