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Lädt ... Emily and Einstein: A Novel of Second Chances (2011)von Linda Francis Lee
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This was a light and enjoyable read. It was the story of a young couple living in Manhattan who seemed to have everything. The book opens with Sandy (the husband) hurrying home one evening when he's struck by a car and dies. Slowly, Emily discovers her life with Sandy wasn't what she thought it was. With the help of her little dog, Einstein, Emily struggles to come to terms with the secrets she is discovering about herself and her marriage and her future. The book is alternately amusing and sad. While it wasn't my favorite book (for reasons I won't write about since they are plot spoilers), I think there are a lot of people who will really enjoy this story. ( ) When I started reading this book, I wasn't too sure where it was going to take me. BUT I enjoyed the book from beginning to end, I felt every emotion that went through Emily and sometimes Einstein ( Mostly I got very upset with Sandy). Thumbs up! I will be recommending this book to family and friends! This is a book that started out well, but truly felt it was too windy and rambling. Still, it is worth the read. Emily is a book editor who falls in love with a very good looking man who is selfish. He is about to leave her when he is hit by a car. Making a deal with an elderly man watching the accident, he becomes a dog. Emily finds the dog, brings him home to their beautiful home at the Dakota apartments in New York City. The dog communicates with her and with her sister who lives with her. In order to get his life back, Sandy, her husband must go out of his way to help his wife. There is a story line of various relationships she has with women co-workers who are savage in their treatment of others. She tries to rescue her sister by encouraging her to write a book about their mother who was a well-known feminist in her life. This is where the rambling becomes too much. Her sister is selfish, her husband was selfish, but now she discovers a younger man who also lives in the Dakota apartments. There simply feels like too many stories that are not connected enough to make this a good book. I finished it, but can't recommend it. However, I did like the details of the lovely Central park in NYC, and I didn't know that there is a swiss cottage that is a puppet theatre.
For her 20th novel, Lee collars the dog-fiction trend in a tale about a timid New York editor, Emily, whose husband is killed by a car, then comes back as her rescue pet, a mutt named Einstein. ...But Lee delivers a breezy diversion, peppered with tidbits from life among privileged New Yorkers. Auszeichnungen
Fiction.
Literature.
Romance.
He was a man who didn't deserve a second chance...but he needed one. Emily and her husband, Sandy Portman, seemed to live a gracious if busy life in an old-world, Upper West Side apartment in the famous Dakota building. But one night on the way to meet Emily, Sandy dies in a tragic accident. The funeral isn't even over before Emily learns she is on the verge of being evicted from their apartment. But worse than the possibility of losing her home, Emily is stunned when she discovers that her marriage was made up of lies. Suddenly Emily is forced on a journey to find out who her husband really was...all the while feeling that somehow he isn't really gone. And what if he isn't? Angry, hurt, and sometimes betrayed by loving memories of the man she lost, Emily finds comfort in a scruffy dog named Einstein. But is Einstein's seemingly odd determination that she save herself enough to make Emily confront her own past? Can he help her find a future-even after she meets a new man? Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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