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The annals of love have recorded many a humiliating breakup over the years, but Alison Hopkins gets hit with a humdinger in this surprising, touching and hilariously deadpan debut novel. When she sends her live-in boyfriend Tom to the supermarket right before a dinner party, she figures the worst that can happen is that he'll get the wrong mustard. Instead he calls from a pay phone to tell her he's not coming back at all, because he's fallen in love with his college sweetheart, Kate Pearce—with whom he's been sleeping for five months. If Alison were a Sex and the City siren, she'd distract herself with martinis, Manolos and misappropriated men, but she's a broke columnist for the floundering weekly The Philadelphia Times. Plus, though now lapsed, she was raised evangelist Christian. So it's a new pair of hiking boots, pie-contest judging and furtive dalliances with a coworker for reluctant good-girl Alison as she tries to gauge the ins and outs of the single world that non-fundamentalists mastered in their early 20s. Alison's struggles to fit into the mainstream world are fresh and full of wisdom, and Dunn's humor is marvelously dry: "Bonnie had a sudden flash of what he might come up with on his own…so she drew a picture on a cocktail napkin of a wide band of channel-set diamonds, and she wrote down the words 'platinum' and 'size six' and 'BIG' and 'SOON.' " This is a delightful exploration of the empowerment that comes from escaping a Big Love turned Bad Love.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Alison Hopkins is devastated when her live-in boyfriend, Tom, walks out of their dinner party and back into the arms of his ex-girlfriend, Kate. Tom is only 33-year-old Alison's second lover, and she wonders if she wouldn't be better off if she had slept with more men. So when Henry, her handsome new boss at the free daily Philadelphia paper for which she writes a relationship column, seems interested in her, Alison seizes the opportunity. However, being a carefree girl-about-town isn't as easy as Alison thought, and she soon finds herself in Henry's office asking him about the state of their relationship. Alison's friend Nina promises Tom will come crawling back to her, but is that really what she wants? Musing on everything from her evangelical Christian upbringing to men behaving badly (and just how long this stage lasts), Alison's engaging voice carries this thoughtful, introspective, smart novel along and raises it far above the average novel about a young woman looking for love in the big city. Kristine Huntley
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright © American Library Association. 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
Couldn't Put it Down for Even a Second!,
By "jean2004" (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Big Love (Hardcover)
This book made me laugh out loud many times! The main character, Alison was down to earth, smart, thoughtful and witty. Sarah Dunn really understands the complexity of the female psyche and is a master of dialogue. Can't wait for her next novel!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Literature, not Chick-Lit,
By BardicWolf73 "fenianpoet2000" (Outside Philly) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Big Love (Hardcover)
Too many times when a woman writes a novel, some label it "chick-lit"...I can only disagree in the sense that "The Big Love" as Sarah has given us is literature and not just some form of entertainment for those of the the female persuasion. This is a story that can - and does - trendsend time (in the 'written' sense) becoming a story that effects the affected...those who wish to be. I've found her story, the words she uses, to be entertaining as well as significant. No matter her words, the most important part how she expresses herself, is exquisite. Maybe I'm too much a fan of open-dialogue-storytelling, but she is (tempting with brilliance) open and forward with her thoughts. This reveals the characters to be fresh and everlasting. As I may say a good reading if not a great way to feel what innner thoughts you may have yourself. I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys solid stories about relationships and how they effect us. That and it's a great read.
5.0 out of 5 stars
LOVE THE BIG LOVE,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Big Love (Hardcover)
I LOVE THIS BOOK. THE CHARACTER OF ALLISON WAS SO TERRIBLY RELATABLE . I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. IT WAS SO SMART AND WITTY. I TOTALLY RECOMMEND IT.
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