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Publisher:
Avon / HarperCollins |
Release
Date: March 30, 2004 |
ISBN:
0060561432 |
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Format
Reviewed: Advanced Reader copy |
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Genre:
Fiction |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Lynda E. Lukow |
Reviewer
Notes: Sexual content
Review
Two |
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Miranda
Blue Calling
By Michelle Curry
Wright
After
a steady diet of unacceptable relationships, Miranda Blue decides
to go on a man-fast. And where better to do it than in an apparently
tilted hovel in Nowhere, Colorado? There, Miranda withdraws from
the world, maintaining steady contact only with the elderly clientele
of her phone companionship service and the neighbor across the street.
And
what a neighbor Billy Steadman is. He escaped to Otnip after his
wife's death to live as a somewhat reclusive hydroponic farmer.
From the moment he meets the lovely woman from across the street,
he becomes oil to her vinegar--separate unless shaken, but when
mixed they make an excellent dressing for the tossed salad of people
in their lives.
Ms.
Wright is a fantastic storyteller whose fresh voice welcomes readers
into her characters' emotionally elaborate world. Miranda and Billy's
relationship builds slowly; their banter is natural and entertaining,
and the eventual acceptance of their mutual interest is fitting,
not forced. Supporting characters such as Miranda's clients, the
local denizens and Billy's friends serve integral purposes in their
well-defined presences. The plot contains no convenient contrivances.
Descriptions of settings are vivid but not overdone. Miranda
Blue Calling is a charismatic novel written in a comfortable
pace, and it is definitely a keeper. Awesome work, Ms. Wright!
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