From Publishers Weekly
Dominated by dialogue in the form of verbal jousting, film producer and television writer DeMarco's first novel reads a lot like a screenplay for the film it's already slated to become, optioned by Miramax Films. At 33, Diana Moore, good-looking, bold and sassy, is the marketing manager for a successful Internet company. She still broods, however, about the "Monster" who dumped her three years ago and now dates a younger woman. She blames herself. As she tells her therapist, "No wonder I have no boyfriend; I say awful things." But her life is otherwise enviable: she has loving parents, a brother she cherishes and a hefty 401(k) until a devastating accident destroys everything that makes her life worth living. Well-meaning friends and sympathetic co-workers become smothering. She quits her job, leaves the city and ends up in rural New Jersey, her Volvo disabled after a collision with an elderly woman riding a motorcycle who turns out to be a major cranberry farm owner named Rosie. Rosie and her granddaughter, Louisa, take Diana in for a few days, and Diana vacillates between enjoyment of a jolly situation and her familiar self-criticism. Meantime, Louisa's former-but-not-forgotten boyfriend finds Diana attractive. She proves receptive, infuriating Louisa; and an older man named Sam turns up with a business proposal, assuming that Diana recognizes him he was best man at her parents' wedding. This is a quick and easy evening's read, but Diana's self-absorption doesn't inspire much empathy. In the film treatment, perhaps Julia Roberts could make this heroine lovable, but it'll be a stretch. Agent, Laura Dail. 11-city author tour; rights sold in Germany, Holland and the U.K.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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From Library Journal
Diana Moore's biggest problem is "The Monster," the ex-boyfriend who left her for another woman. Then the unthinkable happens: Diana's entire family, her parents and brother, are killed by a drunk driver. Diana can barely cope and drives off from her New York City home, headed for nowhere. A fluke leads her to the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, a rural enclave where forests and cranberry bogs are as common as skyscrapers in New York. Quirky new friends who don't know of her past enable Diana first to deny her pain and then to come to terms with it. The descriptions of cranberry farming and the landscapes of this little-known part of the country are fascinating. The story, however, is not as interesting as the setting. DeMarco is a film producer, so her debut novel is, of course, already headed for the silver screen. Its visual storytelling may work better in that format. Recommended for public libraries. Beth Gibbs, Davidson, NC
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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