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Publisher:
Little, Brown / Time Warner |
Release
Date: July 2, 2004 |
ISBN:
0-316-73815-8 |
Awards:
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Format
Reviewed: Hardcover |
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Genre:
Fiction / Chick Lit / Womens Fiction |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Shannon I. Bigham |
Reviewer
Notes: Sexual content |
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MyShelf.com |
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The Big Love
By Sarah
Dunn
Author
Sarah Dunns debut novel, The Big Love, is entertaining
and thought provoking. Alison is a 32-year-old woman living in Philadelphia.
She writes a column for a newspaper and she lives with her boyfriend
of four years, Tom. Born-again Christian parents raised Alison and
she has lapsed from her religion, to a certain extent,
by virtue of her cohabitation and having sex with her boyfriend.
Alison has mixed feelings about her activities and how God will
view them, but she loves her boyfriend and desperately hopes that
their living together will turn into an engagement and then marriage.
Alisons
head appears to be in the clouds. One day, she and her boyfriend
are hosting a dinner party and she has run out of mustard. She sends
him off to the store and not only does he not return with the mustard,
he does not return at all. Instead, he calls her from a payphone
and informs her that he is in love with his college sweetheart and
that he is not returning home. Alison is baffled and crushed by
the news not to mention that she receives it in the middle
of the dinner party. All these events take place in the first chapter
of the book. The remainder of the book is about Alison dealing with
the breakup and sorting through her own feelings and her status
of a single woman at thirty-two years old. Due to her Christian
background, it has been instilled in her that it is critical to
find a suitable man to marry and have children. Therefore, Alisons
biological clock ticks much louder than that of the average, single
thirty-something woman. Will Alison ever find The Big Love to
make her life complete?
The
Big Love was entertaining, heartfelt and very funny at times.
The author has a great sense of humor and the writing was clear,
concise and I turned the pages effortlessly and was eager to continue
reading to find out what happened to Alison. The Big Love is
highly recommended to fans of contemporary fiction, womens
fiction and chick lit.
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