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Interviews | June 19, 2009

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jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
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    Border Songs

    Jim Lynch

Must Love Dogs

by Claire Cook

ISBN13: 9780670031061
ISBN10: 0670031062
Condition: Standard
Dustjacket: Standard
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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Claire Cook's beguilingly original Ready to Fall struck a vibrant chord with its "perky take on midlife angst" (Publishers Weekly). In Must Love Dogs she gives us a contemporary Everywoman in a big rollicking south-of-Boston Irish family — a zany novel with the flavor of Nora Ephron, Susan Isaacs, and Jeanne Ray's Julie and Romeo.

Forty-year-old Sarah Hurlihy, a divorced preschool teacher whose life is her classroom, is about to meet her first date in more than a decade. It was the "Loves Dogs" that hooked her in the personal ad, and now she is scanning her neighborhood café for the man with a yellow rose. And find him she does, but he's the last person on earth she expects to find there...

In Must Love Dogs, hilarious missteps abound. Sarah's widowed father, Billy Hurlihy, with six adult kids, is seeing at least two women. And he and Sarah aren't the only Hurlihys with romantic challenges. Her brother Michael, for one, has a rocky marriage that Mother Teresa, his St. Bernard, just may put over the edge. With self-deprecating humor and a laugh-out-loud view of the way we live now, including shar pei/Labrador crosses and a transgenerational body-piercing experience, Must Love Dogs is a perfect beach read that melts the heartache of dating with warmth and humor.

Review:

"Cook employs just enough glibness and smarty-pants humor to make this tart slice-of-the-single-life worth reading....Breezy first-person narration makes this a fast-paced, humorous diversion." Publishers Weekly

Review:

"It's raining men, family, humor, and tragicomic angst in Cook's latest novel for older fans of Bridget Jones." Booklist

Synopsis:

In "Must Love Dogs, " Cook gives readers a contemporary Everywoman in a big rollicking south-of-Boston Irish family--a zany novel with the flavor of Nora Ephron, Susan Isaacs, and Jeanne Ray's Julie and Romeo. A perfect beach read that melts the heartache of dating with warmth and humor.

About the Author

Claire Cook is the author of Ready to Fall. A teacher of physical fitness and creative writing, she has had previous stints as a copywriter, radio continuity director, garden designer, and dance choreographer.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780670031061
Author:
Cook, Claire
Publisher:
Viking Adult
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Divorced women
Subject:
Love stories
Subject:
General Fiction
Series Volume:
EPA-600/7-83-017
Publication Date:
20020708
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 242 p.
Dimensions:
8.54x5.76x.97 in. .90 lbs.

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