- Paperback: 536 pages
- Publisher: Forge Books; First Edition edition (May 15 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812575563
- ISBN-13: 978-0812575569
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,487,137 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
This intricately plotted novel of family intrigue and ungovernable desire has all the ingredients for a compelling beach read: sex, love, lies, betrayal, hatred, revenge, threats of murder and eventual wish-fulfillment for an all-American guy. Bogner (To Die in Provence) follows the misadventures of charming lawyer Terry Brett from the 1960s to the present. Against his better judgment, Terry finds himself captivated by Allison Desmond, a beautiful, fearless young woman who was brought up in an orphanage and has led a gritty life on the edge of society. When their ill-fated romance ends, heartbroken Allison flees to India, while Terry moves to Southern California. There he marries elegant, sophisticated pediatrician Valerie Holland, who rebuilds his shattered self-esteem. But marital harmony is disrupted when Terry is summoned to his Pacific Northwest hometown to learn shocking news: Allison is back in AmericaAaccompanied by a child she says is his son. Torn by his love for two very different women, Terry decides to marry Allison under an assumed name and legitimize the boy, Sean. Thereafter, he divides his time between his two families until Valerie learns of his double life and the two wives confront Terry and each other. Forced by Valerie to make a commitment, he chooses her, and decides to let Sean think he has died. Terry's bigamy is exposed when, years later, Sean discovers the deception. Bogner's opening chapters are bogged down by detail, but all the threads are satisfyingly tied up in the novel's last half. To some readers, the novel may be an annoying male fantasy. Terry gets to have both womenAthe wrong-side-of-the-tracks bad girl who loves sex, and the cerebral, well-bred society lady who represents gentilityAand these two strong, intelligent females never stop loving him. $100,000 ad/promo.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
A highly involved soaper whose title's irony is clear when criminal lawyer Terry Brett shows himself willing to honor both of his wives. Back in the middle '60s in Port River, Oregon, Terry loves smart-talking little hippie Allison Desmond. But Allison leaves him mid-novel to chase after her soul in India. Terry abandons his practice, leaves town, and suffers anxiety attacks but is brought back to health by the love of millionaire pediatrician and widow Valerie Holland, whom he marries. But then Allison reappears, bearing Sean, Terry's surprise son. Before her return, however, theres been a great web of plotting, largely around a famous but vicious pro basketball player, Earl Raymond, who has ruined a knee, can no longer play, and has been denied his insurance by his franchise owner, Jonah Wolfe. Earl induces Terry, his old college roommate, to handle a suit against Wolfe. Terry wins a half million from Wolfe, another hundred pages pass, Val and Terry are about to be married, and when Val introduces him to her father surprise! its Jonah Wolfe, world-class hedonist. Conveniently, when baby Sean comes down with typhoid, pediatrician Val is on hand to save his life, but even so, married now to Val, Terry realizes that his heart, at its wildest center, belongs to Allison and so he marries her too. But after Val saves Sean, Allison is so gratified that she tells Terry he's not actually Sean's father, that the whole business of the suit against Wolfe was cooked up, and that Earl led busty little Allison back into Terry's path for his own ends. Even telling all this hardly gives the plot away, nor does it suggest Bogner's talent as a dialogue writer, whatever the prolixities of the tale. Good storytelling, and without the ghoulish moments of To Die in Provence (1997). ($100,000 ad/promo) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Riviting,
By M.J. Fischer (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Honor Thy Wife (Paperback)
I thought the jacket cover revealed it all, but considered it would be an interesting journey. However, I was surprised by the events, the choices the main character made and unable to put this book down. A must read.
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Fascinating and haunting story of love,
By pharma@herald.infi.net (Miami) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Honor Thy Wife (Paperback)
A fascinating, haunting story that pulled me in on the first page and didn't let me go until the last line. On one level it is a love story spanning three decades. On another level it is a study of the nature of love - of passionate love that brings dissimilar people together, of a father's tough love that banishes his son's lover for his own good, creating misunderstanding and misery, of compassionate love and of a ruinous father/daughter relationship. Bogner writes in an engaging, optimistic style that makes the book hard to put down.-- Gisela H.
2.0 out of 5 stars
NOT VERY ENJOYABLE,
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This review is from: Honor Thy Wife (Paperback)
"Honor Thy Wife" is another one of those novels that begins good, and then does not seem to go anywhere.Terry Brett is a lawyer, who meets and falls in love with Allison. Allison is the BAD girl with a heart of gold. Valerie Holland is a pediatrician who is also in love with Terry-Terry is also in love with Valerie. At some point in the novel, honor they wife comes into play, but I did not get far enough into the novel to find out. The book just seemed to drag on. I don't know what kind of novel this is supposed to be...The synopsis reads as a Jackie Collins novel, but it is far from it. It had the ingredients to be a good book, but just took too long to put them to use.
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