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For the Love of Money : A Novel
Omar Tyree
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Book Description
Tracy Ellison, the sizzling heroine of the bestselling Flyy Girl, returns in this razor-sharp sequel from acclaimed author Omar Tyree.
From hard-knocks Philly to glamorous Hollywood, Tracy Ellison has truly walked the walk. Now twenty-eight years old and a major movie star, the original Flyy Girl is returning to her East Coast roots. As Tracy reconnects with friends, she seems on the brink of a happily-ever-after existence. But as she begins to address the uncertainties of her youth, Tracy stirs up a string of difficult questions about past loves, ambivalent family ties, and her artistic ambitions. Can attaining success and happiness really be as simple as Tracy makes it look?
Crackling with honesty and passion, For the Love of Money is a triumphant continuation of the adventures of one of contemporary fiction's most outrageous young heroines.
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From hardknocks Philly all the way to glamorous Hollywood, Tracy Ellison has truly walked the walk. Now twenty-eight years old and a big-time movie star, Omar Tyree's infamously uncompromising, erstwhile "Flyy Girl" is going back to her East Coast roots. As she drops in to reconnect with friends, Tracy seems on the brink of a happily-ever-after existence, bountifully armed as she is with over-the-top beauty, unstoppable attitude, and mountains of cash. But what is life, after all, if not a continuous stream of challenges? Tracy's homecoming stirs up a string of difficult questions about past loves, ambivalent family ties, and her artistic ambitions. Crackling with honesty and passion, For the Love of Money is a triumphant continuation of the singular adventures of one of contemporary fiction's most outrageous young heroines.
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0 stars.......2007-09-20
My mother bought me this book when I was in high school, and I didnt get past page 20....tried to read it again(5 years later) and realized, this book is plain terrible!!! Please do not waste your money. I wouldn't be able to finish this book if somebody paid me...(I'm soo serious)
For the love of a good book!!!!!.......2007-07-19
This was THE worst book I have ever read! I was so disgusted that I actually paid the full price for this mess. What is this book about? When he changed the character's name he should have changed the story along with it.
I won't be buying any more of his books for a minute!!!
All I Could Say is...HORRIBLE!!!.......2007-04-04
After reading Flyy Girl which was an excellant book i would think this would be a great continuation....WRONG!! This book was so horrible and bland that i stopped reading dead in the middle of the book. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone and Omar Tyree had the nerve to add a third book, Boss Lady. I'm not either gonna bother and neither should anyone else who doesn't want to waste their money.
No Way!!!.......2007-03-26
By no means would I had purchased this book after reading the reviews. I was so disappointed because Flyy Girl was an awesome read. Please don't waste your time nor your money.
I could not believe it.......2007-02-05
I must say that I am overjoyed that I did not buy this book! To this very day I have not finished it and I started it 6 years ago! I do not like to be cruel or insensitive because I would not want anyone to harshly criticize my work but the book was beyond boring! I made it through half the novel before I decided that I could not continue to torture myself.
The content was bland. As I perused the novel I began to feel like Omar Tyree could care less about his readers. I mean FLyy Girl was magnificent! I recommended it to numerous people and I was all too excited to see there was a sequel. I was horrified when I opened the cover to review a content so emotionless that the pages may as well have been blank! I would not recommend For the Love of Money to a trash can let alone people.
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Known for her deliciously wicked novels depicting the subtleties and pitfalls of modern relationships, Leslie Glass now takes stock of life’s two most compelling priorities: love and money.
Successful stockbroker Annie Custer is the perfect working mom: Her only problems are her career and her domestic life. Impossible clients are driving her mad at work, while home is total chaos. Her burned-out husband refuses to tackle anything more strenuous than his golf game. As for her two teenage daughters, one won’t get out of bed, and the other is flunking out of school. And now Annie’s housekeeper, Dina, the glue keeping them all together, has just quit.
When her best friend, Carol asks Annie to do a slightly illegal favor for Carol’s eccentric parents, Annie reluctantly agrees and is swept into a family feud that proves to be as dangerous as it is cantankerous. Carol’s father accuses Annie of stealing valuable assets, and soon Annie’s job and family are at risk in ways she never could have imagined. Fraud, theft, and a possible cruel murder challenge her loyalties and threaten to change her life forever. Pitted against the shady side of the cutthroat brokerage business, Annie faces the ultimate betrayal from the friend she tried to help, her husband (who still won’t get off the golf course), her kids (who still can’t get their act together), and a younger lover . . . who happens to be her boss.
With the same masterly storytelling and deft characterization that charmed readers in Over His Dead Body, Leslie Glass navigates the highs and lows in the life of a woman who decides it’s time to take stock of her situation–and chart a new course for happiness.
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Known for her deliciously wicked novels depicting the subtleties and pitfalls of modern relationships, Leslie Glass now takes stock of life’s two most compelling priorities: love and money.
Successful stockbroker Annie Custer is the perfect working mom: Her only problems are her career and her domestic life. Impossible clients are driving her mad at work, while home is total chaos. Her burned-out husband refuses to tackle anything more strenuous than his golf game. As for her two teenage daughters, one won’t get out of bed, and the other is flunking out of school. And now Annie’s housekeeper, Dina, the glue keeping them all together, has just quit.
When her best friend, Carol asks Annie to do a slightly illegal favor for Carol’s eccentric parents, Annie reluctantly agrees and is swept into a family feud that proves to be as dangerous as it is cantankerous. Carol’s father accuses Annie of stealing valuable assets, and soon Annie’s job and family are at risk in ways she never could have imagined. Fraud, theft, and a possible cruel murder challenge her loyalties and threaten to change her life forever. Pitted against the shady side of the cutthroat brokerage business, Annie faces the ultimate betrayal from the friend she tried to help, her husband (who still won’t get off the golf course), her kids (who still can’t get their act together), and a younger lover…who happens to be her boss.
With the same masterly storytelling and deft characterization that charmed readers in Over His Dead Body, Leslie Glass navigates the highs and lows in the life of a woman who decides it’s time to take stock of her situation—and chart a new course for happiness.
Customer Reviews:
Smooth as glass, but more digestible.......2005-09-13
For Love and Money is an entertaining example of "matron lit," one of the latest sub-genres in women's fiction. Protagonist Annie Custer is married, but unhappily so. Her best friend, Carol, is dealing not only with a neglectful husband but forgetful parents who stubbornly refuse to turn over their hoarded stock certificates to the safety of a brokerage account.
Now Carol has secured her parents' reluctant agreement and begs Annie, a top-notch stockbroker, to travel to their home and pick up the certificates in person. It's a trip which Annie realizes will take her beyond the boundaries of the strictly ethical and possibly jeopardize her career. As if that weren't enough on her plate, Annie's husband is immobilized by trauma from September 11 plus the loss of his job. Her brilliant older daughter has succumbed to a depression so deep she refuses to start college, or even to get out of bed in the morning, while her younger daughter is probably curling up with a bong full of pot. Is it any wonder that Annie is consoling herself with visions of an afternoon romp with her good-looking boss, Brian?
I checked this book out of my local library, where I found it shelved with mysteries and thrillers. There are mysteries to be solved: How have several hundred thousand dollars in bearer bonds gone missing? Is the death of one of the characters really due to natural causes? But the more engrossing questions are whether or not Annie will end up in bed with Brian, whether she will leave her husband and whether her family will fall apart completely when their steadfast housekeeper goes back to South America.
The first two mysteries are not wholly solved -- in fact, it's left to the reader's interpretation as to whether or not a murder actually took place. But the dilemmas involving Annie's life are neatly resolved. I agree in part with another reader reviewer who feels that the climax seems rushed. I don't object to an ending that quickly wraps up loose ends per se -- I've been accused of ending novels abruptly myself. So what I find overly abrupt in Glass' ending is not the way the financial mystery is wrapped up but the quickness with which both husband and daughter emerge from their funks. Her husband and daughter both seem to be clinically depressed, a condition which doesn't usually clear up that fast.
This is fiction, though, and deftly written and enjoyable fiction at that. I found the book an entertaining read. And I was delighted to discover another novel in the growing collection of "matron lit," both because I'm a mature reader myself and because the protagonist of my latest novel -- probably ten years Annie's senior -- also consoles herself with an unexpected lover during a period of marital discord.
That said, I'm glad I didn't pay the hardcover price for a book that can be devoured during the course of a few hours plane trip. I'd wait for the paperback edition.
Entertaining read, ended too quickly..........2005-02-01
This book started out really well, and kept my attention throughout, however- Ms. Glass seems to have rushed the ending. The story develops the characters well, and is believable and entertaining. I just thought the climax was rushed. Everything happens in the last chapter, and it just seemed like she wanted to finish the book without finishing the story. I would recommend this book for an easy read.
Money can be quite a headache.......2005-01-27
Annie, a stockbroker, is not just asked but begged to go to to the home of a friends elderly parents,who both seem in the grip of dementia, and remove a lifetime of securities for safekeeping. She reluctantly does so. After bringing them back to her office it is determined that a large block of bearer bonds are missing. Carol's father then demands the securities back.
Her husband is suffering from post trumatic stress syndrome having survived the attack on the world trade center. He has since turned into a couch potat
Carol, the friend who got her into this mess, is a fantastic
decorator, living in a loveless marriage. Will an affair bring her happiness?
The book is a well written view of the neurotic tendencies
of New Yorkers under a lot of stress.
poignant family drama .......2004-11-14
She never wanted to be the sole breadwinner in her family, but she finds herself exactly in that position. Her husband never recovered from the destruction of the World Trade center or the betrayal by a friend who sued him for something he never did. Unable to cope, he quit his job as a stockbroker and became a vegetable couch potato. Annie, a stockbroker at the same firm her spouse left, tries to make her income cover their bills as two salaries used to do while allowing her housekeeper to raise their two children.
Her boss is coming on to Annie and she is ready to succumb to his charms. As she ponders an affair, her best friend's father accuses Annie of stealing bearer bonds from him and her housekeeper abruptly quits leaving behind two emotionally wrecked children in her wake. Annie realizes she must straighten out her own life, be strong for her daughters, and uncover what happened to the bonds while knowing she cannot truly aid her children or her husband until she helps herself.
Leslie Glass displays her wry wit and cutting edge humor in a poignant family drama with a touch of mystery that hooks readers from beginning to end. The protagonist learns that she is strong because circumstances require her to be so; fortified with moral fiber and courage Annie takes charge of her life before she ends up in the same abyss as her husband. He is an intriguing character, her opposite for when the going got tough, he quit. Readers will appreciate this strong tale with a memorable cast who laugh on the outside, but cry on the inside.
Harriet Klausner
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THIS BOOK IS SO AU COURANT..........2007-08-09
You should read this book if only for its uncanny alignment with the seemingly unpredictable, frenzied behavior of the financial markets in the past two weeks. Not even the VIX index could foreshadow as accurately as this novel did. How I wish Wayne (or Berberian) would manage my portfolio!
The Peril of Rooftop Kissing.......2007-08-09
If Viken Berberian had not been such a fine novelist he could easily be a food critic, an architect, a market analyst, an art impresario, a POET ... Aware of most of my contemporaries (me included) suffering of the attention deficit disorder I tried to make the list as short as possible but others might find more applications for this multifaceted artist who at each turn reveals yet another dimension to the story that has an uninhibited flowing quality and whose expertise in the depicted diverse fields is that of marked vastness. It is a novel of manifold intricacies; the obvious ones are: shedding new light on Marx's masterpiece as well as on one of the phenomena of flourishing at Wall Street, along with `ecstasies' promised and fulfilled by French love angulations commingled with the wafting aroma of delicacies, structural details of architectural wonders until a fateful slip sends hearts crumbling (mine too). It would not have been true Berberian if human multiplicity, the rules and games, our feeble balance with the nature, the evil and the divine were not contextual constituents to be gleaned. The world is known to shudder and move on but readers will be awestruck. A brilliant following to his debut THE CYCLIST.
Necessary reading for citizens of capital markets.......2007-07-24
Much like the main character Wayne, I avoid fiction novels - unless there is an important lesson that may be derived from the reading. This book perfectly encompasses the reasons why I think fiction should ever be read and it does so with a subtle mockery of the reason that was the source of my disdain: the capital markets.
I loved this book because it so simply highlighted how in our persistent pursuit of wealth, we rarely make the effort to appreciate what we were presumably accumulating the wealth for in the first place. The pleasantries of life such as companionship, of natural beauty, of moderate laziness are replaced with electronic toys, quick thrills (like a ten million dollar play against the market), fragile designer furniture. We become concerned with salaries, investments, 401Ks, retirement planning, expected growth, dividends ... except we forget that the original plan was to use these things to somehow enjoy our lives - although we may have forgotten how to enjoy anything besides the increased return on investment of our portfolios. What good is money if you don't use it?
Berberian clearly understands all of this and coupled with his immaculate descriptions of people, places, and things, he creates a wondrous projection of our capitalist society - not to condemn it but to show that capitalism need not be the sole governing philosophy of our existence.
In total, the perfectly placed instances of humor along with the important and relevant societal messages make for a thoroughly enjoyable and significant literary work. Every lover, financier, employee, and hopeful bon vivant should read this book.
Marseilles mon Amour.......2007-07-15
I LOVED this novel with its crisp, technicolor scenes from France's second
largest city, Marseilles. Closer to DeLillo than Coelho as Publishers Weekly
oddly suggests. I recommend reading it right after Cosmopolis, which I
liked, and then comparing the two. A real eye opener and a ruthless take
down of Marx.
A Das Kapital for today.......2007-07-09
You're going to want to reread this book as soon as it ends. It is the story of today's world, froth with suspension of conscience in the abysmal pursuit of wealth, abated only by primal human needs and wants. You will find the protagonist Wayne endearing despite his obnoxious Manhattanite tendencies complete with a Varda shoe collection and Hans Wegner furniture. You will find comical the fustian melodrama with which he greets his hedgefund colleagues AND his sandwiches that consistently arrive sans the desired avocado. You might even dismiss his utter and specific dedication to econoterrorism. Berberian propels you there. You will be drawn to Wayne's cryptic partnership with a Corsican obsessed with ecopreservation and all things bucolic. He executes Wayne's strategy of blasting international financial landmarks for market manipulation, in as clandestine a manner as he preserves his relations with Wayne's beloved. You might find the Corsican esoteric but easily engage his frustration with a world not concerned with losing its trees or finding its red ants. Perhaps you will most relate to Berberian's Alix. A capricious architecture student, she offers an appreciation of Marseille--its hues and babble--strangely, but alluringly, from its rooftops. Ultimately, she provides Wayne and the Corsican with the actual blueprints necessary for their schemata, and this story the grace it yearns. Berberian tells a harsh story, reminiscent of daily CNN reports (to which we're now immune) from seemingly the middle of nowhere across the Atlantic, with the delicacy of Queen Anne's lace. He weaves, with unparalleled ease, algorithmic theorems and ideologies long-forgotten with amorous details of keeping count of a lover's birthmarks and the sequence of their emails. His storytelling is almost algebraic in design, such that the reader is comfortable with the organized chaos of the intersecting yet linear lives of the characters on different continents and different spheres of thought. He quotes Guy Debord within a page of a generic "roses are red, violets are blue" poem, and, in doing so, helps you internalize and champion the ideologies, strata and human condition of each of his characters. Berberian has a way of making you feel like you are part of the story, aware of every iota of the characters' environment, from furniture that has affect, to eateries screaming with personality, and swimming-pools in glass buildings that tout the best capitalism has to offer. Nothing about Berberian's writing is incidental. His approach is scientific, his lexicon poignant, his wry humor inescapable. However, there is nothing categorical or conditional about the organic manner with which he presents you this story and helps make it your own. This is the story of today's world in which Marx's Das Kapital is challenged daily, and the ultimate victor is never really clear and always victim to interpretation. You're going to want to reread this book as soon as it ends.
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A dazzling and jarringly original erotic thriller. Try to imagine what might have happened if Gordon Merrick on steroids had written St. Elmo's Fire and then stirred it up with William Hjortsberg's Falling Angel. This book has it all: Conspiracy, betrayal, psychosis, obsession, and the evil machinations of the Religious Right as shown by the spectacularly sexy, and spectacularly unstable, Sister Rose, evangelistic earth-mother to thousands of devoted neo-Christian followers. This book reads like an IMAX spectacle about the power of male beauty, with red-hot icons, a breathless climax, and erotica that's akin to Anais Nin on Viagra with a bump of meth.
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A wild and wonderful romp!.......2003-07-21
Stunning ... breathtaking ... mesmerizing. Brett Easton Ellis with better sex. My hot summer afternoons have been totally devoted to this hot, hot story, cleverly written, wittingly entertaining. I didn't actually count, but I think every character has sex with every other character. But this novel is more than just sex. It's a great story with fantastic dialogue. (The final conversation between Rose and Calder is a camp classic.) Darwin Porter is a name to remember. Highly, highly recommended.
The power of male beauty.......2002-11-18
This review coincides with my thoughts on this brilliant book. It was published in the MANSTUFF column of Mandate Magazine's February, 2003 issue. Thanks for letting me replicate it here:
Blood Moon tells the story of Buck Brooke III, a liberal journalist who swings both ways in the bedroom. Trouble begins when he postpones a photo shoot for a major magazine that just named him "sexiest man alive." He has dinner with Rose Philipps, an avangelist known for her right-wing politics and fire-and-brimstone preaching style. Preacher Philipps has a stunningly attractive gay son, Shelley, and together they unite into an aggressive couple competing for the same male prizes. We're taken on a journey through sexual neuroses, corrupt politics, sanctimonious religion, murder, and steamy sex. When the book was first published, one reviewer raved, "If you ever thought that sex, psychosis, right-wing religion, and violence aren't linked, think again--and read this spellbinder." Another critic wrote, "Blood Moon is dazzlingly and jarringly original, an erotic thriller from a gifted Southern voice. It reads like an IMAX spectacle about the power of male beauty, with red-hot icons, a breathless climax, and erotica akin to Anais Nin on Viagra with a bump of meth."
I LOVED this novel. It's unique in the spectrum of erotic male fiction, with edgy neuroses and jarring political and cultural associations that explode all over the landscape. And at a stocking-stuffer price of less than $[money] a copy, it's hard to go wrong.....I really think you should buy a copy of this book.
I couldn't put it down...........2002-05-30
...nor could I keep it down. This book has everything from drama, to sex, to religion, to sex, to mystery that keeps you on the edge of your seat, to more sex. This book got me so steamed, I had to take a shower....more than once. I had read "Midnight in the Garden" by Darwin on a recent trip to Seattle, and when I saw this, I couldn't put it back on the shelf. If you are looking for a very entertaining and engrossing read, this is it! It kept me up many nights, 'cause I couldn't put it away.
*Darwin- I can't wait for your next novel...Bring it on!
A big book with big cojones. ........2001-12-31
After the events of 9-11, what's described in this circa 1999 thriller seem strangely clairvoyant. Like a Doberman's teeth ripping into flesh, it exposes the evil labyrinths of fanatical Christianity in America today. No other book does so with as spunky an overview of male/male eroticism. If you ever thought that sex, psychosis, right-wing religion, and violence aren't inextricably linked, think again, and read this book. Thumbs Up for this five-star blockbuster of a novel!
The Embodiment of Evil.......2000-08-04
Far from being "the great gay epic" that some have claimed to this book to be, "Blood Moon" is nothing but badly written pornography; it is ,simultaneously, 804 pages of human beings who are driven by power, money, and sex. All the characters treat each other as either pure sexual receptacles or sources of money gotten through sexual prowess. There is a pervasive and underlying understanding that the measure of a man is defined solely by the enormous size of the his genitals (according to the author, this is what make "a real man") or the insatiable passion of a man or woman who wants to be penetrated by these utterly fantastic pieces of male anatomy. The lust for money, the overwhelming need for self-esteem at the expense of others, the hypocrisy and hate-mongering, the religious fanatacism, the psychosis and sexual obsession, and finally the ferocious, horrific and utterly insane blood bath at the end, are what comprise this book. The writing is pedantic and sophomoric, redundant and sensationalistic. I am appalled by the mind of Darwin Porter who, as author, can constuct a world of such visceral evil and self-destruction. There is not a single sympathetic character in the entire book. Every one of them is motivated by sexual obsession, self interest over anything else, and destruction of anyone or anything that gets in the way of that. As a very self-loving gay man, and as one who thrives on well-written gay literature (e.g. Paul Russell, Matthew Stadler, Michael Cunningham), I am ashamed to have "Blood Moon" claimed as "a great gay epic". This is not great literature. It is not even semi-good pornography. It is just a piece of sensationalism that will sell.
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*Creator Sang-Eun Lee is the creator of 5 popular manga titles. *Will appeal to fans of "Peach Girl" and "DNAngel" *Color inserts
Yenni's plan is working out perfectly! She manages to convince Jay and his family to move in. What she didn't expect was for In Young to show up and "squats" on her plans. In Young intentions are to interfere with Yenni's plan... but has he suddenly fallen head over heels for her? On the other hand Jay has had feelings for Yenni since their childhood days. Unfortunately Yenni doesn't remember anything about Jay from her childhood! Jay must step up or face being forgotten completely.
Customer Reviews:
Although noticably brief, Love or Money was still an enjoyable series.......2006-08-14
The ending did leave a bit to be desired(but it was loads better than Les Bijoux and Eternity), I did enjoy all the characters and the simple plotline. The humor was interesting, the characters goregous, and the angst a bit.. well I like mine more developed.
A bad ending for a series with potential.......2006-05-13
If you are expecting a good, complete ending for this series, you might not want to look further. The story builds steadily up until this final volume, and then leaves readers empty-handed with a very non-committal ending that does a great disjustice to the series and relationships developed throughout between Yenni and the two young men in her life.
Had I known the story was going to have the loose ends it had and such an unresolved ending, I might not have started reading it.
For manhwa fans, I would suggest Neck and Neck (while I don't yet know the ending, the story in itself seems very promising) instead of Love or Money. Love or Money is entertaining before the end, but the ending in itself is so incomplete that it is enough to leave a bad taste in the mouths of readers who were enjoying it up until then. Any ending is better than no ending at all...and without an ending, this series becomes one that is forgettable rather than the unforgettable one it could have been.
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Complete 6-Part X-Over Story
*** Contains Issue #'s:
Cage (1992) #15-16 (parts 2,5)
Silver Sable & The Wild Pack (1992) 13-14 (parts 3,6)
Terror Inc (1992) 11-12 (parts 1,4)
Average customer rating:
- Worst Penny Jordan
- A little bit of glossy love shines thru dross of plot. ..
- TWO GREAT STORIES!
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For Love or Money: 2 Novels in 1 (Unwanted Wedding / The Borghese Bride)
Penny Jordan , and
Sandra Marton
Manufacturer: Harlequin
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Customer Reviews:
Worst Penny Jordan.......2006-07-31
The very first romance book I ever read was by Penny Jordan and I've loved the genre ever since. I've always enjoyed her stories especially but when I read this I couldn't believe she wrote it. The heroine is a horrible wimp and I have yet to meet a woman like her in the 21st century. She was so annoying that I found this story impossible to enjoy, if I could give this book zero stars than I would.
The Sandra Marton story was enjoyable and the only redeeming thing about purchasing this book. Her characters were easy to like and the heroine in the story was strong and independent. I hate when the women are all wimpy and clingy to the men like they couldn't possibly survive without a man.
A little bit of glossy love shines thru dross of plot. .. .......2005-04-20
Unwanted Wedding:
Heiress Rosy Wyndham needs to marry within two months if she desires to retain her ancestral home - threatened by the only other heir, her uncle Edward.
Her long time nemesis 'Guard', neither friend nor foe, agrees to wed her in a marriage of mutual convenience, to be concluded after a year.
However, Rosy has never felt entirely comfortable around Guard and he seems to delight in torturing her.
Nothing new here, but old plots rather sweetly wrapped.
From the beginning it is transparent that Guard is obviously nuturing some attraction to Rosy, and Rosy oblivious and taking everything with angst.
The Borghese Bride:
Set between America and Italy, ridiculously rich Dominic Borghese loans an imperious autocrat 3 million dollars with terms she finds impossible to fulfil.
Ariana is heir to the business which her grandmother has mortgaged to Dominic, and that is not the only connection between the two.
Ariana had conceived a child during a one night stand with Dominic, and neither of them are aware of the identity of the other.
When fate brings them together again, two strong personalities clash over a three-million-dollar marriage proposition, and one small child.
The plotlines are all trivia really, because the enjoyable part of this book is the peppering of italian endearments & the charm of the foreign setting.
In spite of the trite & banal storylines, author Sandra Morton manages to make quite a heartwarming romance and a very likeable character in Dominic - although Ariane is painted a bit less vividly.
Not a bad collection - two books of which The Borghese Bride is definately the star, but both are a decent read & manage to tug the heart strings.
kotori 2005
TWO GREAT STORIES!.......2004-02-07
Sandra Marton and Penny Jordan are a great pair of tale-tellers. I really enjoyed this book and the stories they each told.
Average customer rating:
- North Carolina or anyplace else, growing up can be funny.
- juvenile
- Caliban in the Car
- Warmth Infuses This Debut Novel
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Money, Love: A Novel
Brad Barkley
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Book Description
Ever since sixteen-year-old Gabe Strickland can remember, his father, Roman, has believed in the sale: that magical moment on the customer's porch, the deal about to close. But with each dizzying success comes an equally memorable failure, and Gabe's mother, Gladys, has grown tired of waiting for a life of financial stability. So in the summer of 1975 she leaves Roman and goes to live with his dependable brother Dutch. Confident he can win Gladys back, Roman pins all his hopes on a barnstorming tour of Southern carnivals, hawking tickets for "Death Cars of Celebrities." Gabe finds his own truth somewhere between Roman's quixotic dreaming and Gladys's newfound stability, and he learns that love is, ultimately, the one thing that can't be bought or sold. Reading group guide included.
Customer Reviews:
North Carolina or anyplace else, growing up can be funny........2002-11-07
Brad Barkley's book "Money,Love" reminded me that the two things are intertwined. Without the security that comes from having "enough" money, there is frequently no love. Only the people involved know what enough is for them.
I first read this book last summer. I enjoyed reading it then. I just finished re-reading it. I think I liked it even more this time.
Last summer I expected the protagonist, Gabe, to wind up in bed with the ex-Ms. North Carolina once married to his uncle. Barkley proved himself a better writer than that in this excellent example of the "coming-of-age-novel".
"Money, Love" does not have the crudity or explicit sexuality of Lee Maynard's "Crum" (a coming-of-age-novel set in West Virginia) it does have the same feeling of an honest look at life as seen through the eyes of a teenager.
I have recommended this book to many of my friends. I would reccomend it to anyone interested in a story that is sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, and sometimes, like life itself, a mixture of the two.
juvenile.......2002-07-05
For a book with such a literary pedigree, I found it remarkably immature and self-indulgent. Sure, it all takes place in the mind of a teenaged boy, but isn't the author's job to instill something in the story to make us care, or allow us to learn? I guess it is just the new literature: taking the ordinary and keeping it that way.
Caliban in the Car.......2001-02-06
Anybody who's ever been dazzled, angered, mystified, and disaappinted by a parent like Roman will recognize the depths of love and surprise in the young man Gabe. Here are Caliban and Caliban Jr, riding around, shooting for both love and money, the two big American abstractions stuffed -where else - in American cars and in the snake-oil tents of American life. I was reminded of the disturbing novel called "Lizard" by Dennis Covington, story of another young Caliban, another strong American promise. You might not love Barkley's story, but you can't dismiss it.
Warmth Infuses This Debut Novel.......2001-01-13
This debut novel by Brad Barkley has a warmth and a pulse--and a heart. A compassionate look at the impact of big dreams and imagination on every day life, it left me with a greater sympathy for and sense of admiration of my fellow humans. Daring to think outside the boundaries of the "average" life, as Roman does, carries its price, but it also brings a richness that makes for engaging fiction; it clears the eye and the heart of the reader and reminds him to stray outside the lines. Barkley has a grace in dealing with the essence of what makes us human, and I highly recommend this first effort.
Dullsville.......2001-01-06
Count me in with the people who wish the author had written a completely different book. The author relies far too much on what he mistakenly believes are charming and funny nostalgic details...but it comes off as cloying and overly clever and really rather empty. Maybe next time.
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