Article: Fools Rush In; Bill Carter

"A book written out of necessity" is how Jim Harrison describes "Fools Rush In" by Bill Carter and I would add, not just necessity for the writer but for the reader. Bill Carter went to Sarajevo in his 20s, after the death in a car accident of Corrina, the woman he loved. "I carry her with me," he writes towards the end of the book, "not because I want to relive the past but because she made me a better person. It was she who released me on her last breath and sent me screaming naked into the world." This Blakean image is apt for the young man who, raw with grief, sets out to do something useful with his life.

He meets up with an international group of people led by an Englishman, Graeme ...

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