Keith Steinbaum
This is a truly stimulating question, and one that makes me wish I could remember every engaging couple I've encountered. Unfortunately, however, I'm sure I'll leave out deserving candidates. Before I give my answer, my wife wanted her vote accounted for, and her answer is one that I'm sure would be a popular one - Gone With the Wind's Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
For me, I'll give two answers - one for a book I read many years ago but still remains with me as a memorable love story, and a couple from more recent times who are part of a six book series.
Colleen McCullough's 'The Thorn Birds' offered a highly alluring, 'forbidden fruit' relationship between a Catholic Priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart, and a woman named Meggie Cleary who he watched growing up from a beautiful young girl to a beautiful young woman. The self-explanatory tension offered the reader a compassionate glimpse into de Bricassart's urges versus his religious morality, and McCullough wrote a masterful saga based around this storyline.
My answer for a couple from recent years is private investigator Patrick Kenzie, and his work partner/lover, Angela Gennaro, featured in six separate books from Dennis Lehane. Each of them carries harmful, unshakable baggage from their past combined with a burning passion for their work and each other that creates great literary dynamics unmatched in their intensity from books that I've read.
Thank you for your intriguing inquiry.
For me, I'll give two answers - one for a book I read many years ago but still remains with me as a memorable love story, and a couple from more recent times who are part of a six book series.
Colleen McCullough's 'The Thorn Birds' offered a highly alluring, 'forbidden fruit' relationship between a Catholic Priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart, and a woman named Meggie Cleary who he watched growing up from a beautiful young girl to a beautiful young woman. The self-explanatory tension offered the reader a compassionate glimpse into de Bricassart's urges versus his religious morality, and McCullough wrote a masterful saga based around this storyline.
My answer for a couple from recent years is private investigator Patrick Kenzie, and his work partner/lover, Angela Gennaro, featured in six separate books from Dennis Lehane. Each of them carries harmful, unshakable baggage from their past combined with a burning passion for their work and each other that creates great literary dynamics unmatched in their intensity from books that I've read.
Thank you for your intriguing inquiry.
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