- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Forge Books; First Edition edition (May 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0765304058
- ISBN-13: 978-0765304056
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,064,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jesse, youngest son of widower Mickey Sienna, 83, asks his father to move in with him instead of to the assisted-living facility preferred by his siblings. Father and son quickly acclimate to each other's idiosyncrasies, but Jesse's healthy twenty-first-century relationship with his girlfriend, Marina, completely befuddles Mickey. To him, Marina is a rare woman whom Jesse should treasure, but Jesse, still smarting from numerous failed relationships, is not ready to commit. Trying to show Jesse how disastrous it would be for him to lose Marina, Mickey reveals the secret of his first and greatest love. In a series of emotionally draining chapters stretching out over several weeks, Mickey confides his love for Gina, an intelligent, passionate woman to whom he was engaged before her untimely death over 50 years earlier. Jesse realizes how foolish he has been, telling Marina his father was right when he called him a moron. Compelling characters quickly engage the reader in a heartfelt, if somewhat predictable, tale of romance lost and found. Deborah Donovan
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“The Forever Year is a wry, tender, beautifully written novel. . . . Once I started, I couldn’t put it down. With a polished and intimate style, and characters that seem to come from your own family, Ronald Anthony delivers a powerful story that just may change the way you think about love.” —New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas
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4.0 out of 5 stars
delightful family relationship drama,
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This review is from: The Forever Year (Hardcover)
At eighty-three, Mickey Sienna lives alone in his New Jersey home ever since his beloved wife Dorothy died a few years ago. Mickey's four children worry about his living alone at his age, but do nothing until he doses off while making fried eggs, setting his kitchen on fire. The siblings discuss what to do. The three oldest want to move dad into assisted living while the youngest by twelve years Jesse wants his father to move in with him.When threatened with the home, Mickey leaps at moving in with Jesse. The two men walk gingerly on eggshells as they struggle to find a middle ground and avoid a generation war. Mickey forces Jesse to bring his girlfriend Marina to him so he can meet her. He quickly realizes these two have a rare chance for a once in a lifetime love, but his son is a moron who thinks love eventually dies. Mickey relates the story of his one true love, not his spouse of fifty years though he loved her too. Will Jesse understand what he has before he loses it or is fatherly advice too late for a grown up son? THE FOREVER YEARS is a delightful family relationship drama with a wonderful romantic subplot. The story line is amusing yet poignant as Mickey struggles with his decreasing capacity and his adult children tussle with what is best for their beloved dad. Jesse is an enjoyable individual who is a mocking cynical Metro New Yorker (oxymoron?) as well as a nurturing person. Though Marina seems too perfect to be real, fans will appreciate Ronald Anthony's enchanting and beautiful modern day novel. Harriet Klausner
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Forever Year (Hardcover)
Title: The Forever YearsAuthor: Ronald Anthony Publisher: Forge Books Jesse Sienna is content with his life and his relationship to girlfriend Marina. He makes no promises, why should he when love - if there really is such a thing - never lasts. But life is full of surprises as Jesse discovers when his Father, Mickey, accepts and moves from the family home to Jesse's apartment. Adjustments to change are never predictable but when Mickey reveals a life long secret, Jesse life and his perspective is changed. "The Forever Years" is a fabulous debut novel by Ronald Anthony. Keep them coming, Ronald! Beverly J Scott, author of Righteous Revenge and Ruth Fever http://www.beverlyjscott.com
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Enter Ronald Anthony, Wordmaster...,
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This review is from: The Forever Year (Hardcover)
Often prose and poetry are two separate and individual crafts, but in some very rare cases a writer is so adept with words that the two become one. With his first novel, Ronald Anthony has proven he is of that Wordmaster class. I've often viewed poetry to be the essence of life, doled out in tiny, sparkling granules. I see Ronald's book cover as an hourglass and his pages the sprinkles of life's golden sand.
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