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Publisher:
Time Warner |
Release
Date: August 2004 |
ISBN:
0-446-53154-5 |
Awards:
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Format
Reviewed: SoftCover Paperback |
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Genre:
Fiction / General (Romance of the very nicest form) |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf |
Reviewer
Notes: a very charming, non-violent, soft language, true
heart romance. Older Teen to Adult. Most age groups can and
should relate to and enjoy this book |
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Shenandoah Summer
By John Jaffe
This
was a charming old-fashioned romance of the kind of loving relationship
every girl dreams about and hopes to find: someone who will love
her without reservation or consideration of consequences. A warm
and fuzzy kind of book.
Alyssa
is a married, upwardly mobile ex-actress who puts forth all of her
happy energies into a charming little house and some gone by the
wayside retired horses. That is during the summers and weekends;
during the rest of the time, she is a drama teacher in another town
and somewhat unhappy housewife living a lie. She has this kitschy
little farm plot of acreage that is near an artists colony,
and she gets involved with this colony each summer. Her marriage
is spiked with tragedy that brought her to depths of depression
that her husband could not ever understand and didnt really
want to, thus a wedge was put between them that will never go away.
He hides from her; she goes to the farm and immerses herself into
the summer follies.
In comes
Tug, a fascinating, talented artist, sort of NY bred and old guard
and sort of funky, but very, oh-so handsome in a rugged out west
way. He has been the guy afraid to commit, the one that always leaves
the gal before the going gets too sticky for him to pull away. He
needs to learn to draw, to fall, and to give of himself.
A twist,
a turn and an almost heart-rending ending. A great little book that
comes along just when no one thinks there is another way to write
a love story. Made me reflect back to the same type of romance as
Bridges of Madison County, however this story takes place
in present perspective. My heart sang, my hopes were rekindled;
my desires for a man of that ability and a writer of that passion
who could see through the eyes of someone waiting were all given
wing.
Truly
a wonderful book. A joy to read. The author has a special insight
into the needs of a woman, so it could be termed a Chick-Lit book,
but it is more than that. It is what the inside of a woman wants.
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