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Alice in Bedby Cathleen SchineISBN 0425071898 (0-425-07189-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Evolution of Janeby Cathleen SchineISBN 0395826578 (0-395-82657-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Love Letterby Cathleen SchineISBN 0312426984 (0-312-42698-4)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Love Letter'Book summary:In the quaint New England town of Pequot--"an artists' colony without the artists"--a mystery unfolds in the form of a crumpled letter. Helen MacFarquhar, the divorced 42-year-old proprietor of Horatio Street Books, finds a torrid love note in a stack of mail. Creased oddly, without an accompanying envelope, addressed to "Goat" and signed "Ram," at first the letter only momentarily disrupts her routine. But Helen, usually in total control of her thoughts, can't seem to get it out of her head. Was it simply a postal error, or was it meant for her? Everyone who enters her store becomes a suspect, even her new summer employee, 20-year-old Johnny--whom she has paraded around the premises like "a turkey, perhaps, on a leash," introducing him with delighted condescension: "Look what I've got ... a college student."
Johnny is alternately fascinated and irritated by his boss, who relies on unabashed, highly skilled flirting as her fail-safe mechanism for closing a sale. We too are drawn in by Helen's seductive charm and savvy competency, so much so that we are as genuinely surprised as she is when her idle wonderings about Johnny become something more. What could this literary, lovely face that sells a thousand books see in a college boy, 22 years her junior?
Except for the duo's first embrace--precipitated by Helen's accidental hosing down of the hunky, shirtless undergrad--The Love Letter stays comfortably on this side of heaving-bosom romance novel. Humor reigns supreme here, as well as a warm nostalgia and thoughtful reflection on good old-fashioned letter writing: "Letters are so indiscreet, she thought. They're so exposed, so vulnerable, so naked--they're even worse than snapshots." Cathleen Schine's engaging fourth novel may even incite a few readers to forgo e-mail for the pleasant scrape of ink across paper. --Brangien Davis [via]
More editions of The Love Letter:
- The Love Letter: ISBN 0340660236 (0-340-66023-6)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division - The Love Letter: ISBN 0340765488 (0-340-76548-8)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division - The Love Letter: ISBN 0451188470 (0-451-18847-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Love Letter: ISBN 0451198670 (0-451-19867-0)
Softcover, Signet - The Love Letter: ISBN 0452275989 (0-452-27598-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - The Love Letter: ISBN 0395689961 (0-395-68996-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Love Letter: ISBN 0312426984 (0-312-42698-4)
Softcover, Picador USA
- The Love Letter: ISBN 0340660236 (0-340-66023-6)
The New Yorkers: Library Editionby Cathleen SchineISBN 0312427832 (0-312-42783-2)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Rameau's Nieceby Cathleen SchineISBN 0340684682 (0-340-68468-2)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rameau's Niece'Book summary:A wise and witty comedy of a contemporary young wife's coming-of-age--by the author of To the Birdhouse. A series of contretemps plunges a brilliant--though forgetful--author into the maelstrom of modern-day sexual practice, eventually washing her up on the farther shore of self-understanding. "(Schine) is no ordinary writer".--New York Times Book Review. [via]
She Is Meby Cathleen SchineISBN 0316159425 (0-316-15942-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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To the Birdhouseby Cathleen SchineISBN 0374278288 (0-374-27828-8)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Birdhouse'Book summary:Alice Brody, the bed-ridden heroine of Alice in Bed, is finally up and about--and getting married. But Alice's dreams of the serene family life are disrupted by her mother's inane choice of boyfriends: Louie Scifo, a strange bird who ruffles everyone's feathers. [via]
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