Synopses & Reviews
On the surface Herb and Lorna Piper are typically sunny 1950s American adults. Herbs sells Sudebakers to the citizens of Bebbington, a Long Island seaside town, and Lorna is his cheerfully coy and clever wife. Their story seems like an American myth: small-town origins, Jazz Age romance, Depression trials, postwar prosperity. But this book begins with the shocking, wondrous discovery, made by their grandson Peter Leroy after their death, "that my maternal grandparents were involved in--virtually the creators of--the animated erotic jewelry industry." And from that moment the story of Herb and Lorna takes on a tone of mingled awe and delight, propelled by a pair of secrets that dovetail, at the end, into a luscious and bawdy revelation.
Review
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Herb 'n' Lorna is the happiest of books--not to mention the sexiest...The kind of sweetness and passion and laughter Kraft draws from these ordinary lives is rare and enduring." --Charles Thruheart,
The Washington Post"As graceful, exhilerating, and complicated as a quadrille." --Cathleen Schine, The New York Times Book Review
"Both marvelously sly and enormously good-natured. A wonderful love story...but there is much more to it than that...Beguiling." --Lisa Jensen, San Francisco Chronicle
"Herb 'n' Lorna is a classic. Savor it." --Andrei Codrescu, National Public Radio
About the Author
Eric Kraft's other books include R
eservations Recommended, Little Follies, Where Do You Stop?, What a Piece of Work I Am, and A
t Home With The Glynns, all published in paperback by Picador USA. In addition, his books are available in an interactive versions, The
Complete Peter Leroy (so far), from Voyager. He lives with his wife on Long Island, New York.