Love Roger Author:Charles Webb Love, Roger is a profoundly funny novel about a young man who decides that the most important thing in life is stability. — Roger's placid existence - as the agent for other people's travels - is interrupted one night when he finds himself locked in a Boston department store. He is soon in the grip of such threatening figures as Melinda, a south... more »ern seductress who fears she is a loon; Beth, a girl from Wisconsin who is set on marriage; and the demanding prostitute, Joanna. But perhaps the greatest threat to Roger's stability is his own insistent vision, which sees starkly the inanities of daily life and the empty terror that lies beneath them.« less