The wife's tale : a novel /
by Lansens, Lori.
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| Circulating | The Plains | Adult Fiction | AF Lansens (Browse Shelf) | Available | |
| Circulating | Nelsonville | Adult Fiction | AF Lansens (Browse Shelf) | Available | |
| Circulating | Athens | Adult Fiction | AF Lansens (Browse Shelf) | Available |
From Product Description:
For the first time in her life, she boards a plane and flies across the country to find her lost husband. So used to hiding from the world, Mary finds that in the bright sun and broad vistas of California, she is forced to look up from the pavement. And what she finds fills her with inner strength she's never felt before. Through it all, Mary not only finds kindred spirits, but reunites with a more intimate stranger no longer sequestered by fear and habit: herself.
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Circulating | The wife's tale / by Lansens, Lori. ©2010
Center Point Pub., (Thorndike, Me. :) 478 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. |
Four & Five Stars?? You were kidding, right?
Honestly, I hate giving a book just one star but sometimes it just can't be helped. <br /> <br />Others have commented on the novel's story so I won't go there. What I will say is that I have rarely been so bored waiting for something to happen, which is generally a killer of a fault at the very beginning of a book. Worse yet, pages and pages and pages of nothing much happening continues for what seems like forever as the main character wallows in her own uninteresting life. Sorry, but I couldn't take it and finally gave up. <br /> <br />Unless you are looking for a substitute for Ambien, I would suggest you avoid A Wife's Tale. <br />
Modifications would improve it greatly
This story is dismaying,to say the least. The descriptions of Mary and her eating are effectively gruesome,leaving the reader with the same mildly loathsome sense of contamination that one feels after watching "Hoarding: Buried Alive". The Disney magic carpet of self-enlightening characters designed to clear Mary's clouded crystal ball is too simplistic and artificial. Where were any interesting people for the 25 years that she was married to her husband? After all, she wasn't a recluse. Oh, and if you think that my second sentence was a run-on, you're just getting warmed up for the author's style. Great idea, interesting plot but lots of low level errors. Probably not the writer's fault as much as the editor's, but still,some very basic modifications would enhance this sympathetic portrayal of <br />obesity and character development enormously. Perhaps I'll look at the author's previous book, but I did not get past the 60% point on this one. Sorry.
This book is awful so far ...
I am so glad I checked the reviews before I picked this book back up to trudge through the remainder. I am not at all interested in Mary Gooch, the only thing that kept me reading was to finally see her marriage issues resolved. That clearly won't happen so back to the library this book goes.
Very interesting story
I enjoyed reading this story about the life of a 300 plus pound abandoned wife and how she manages to get her life back under control. Very thought provoking on so many subjects that come up along the way. I just wish the ending was a little more defined. But a very good read.
I didn't Mary fat, or thin or in between....
Mary Gooch is boring and shallow. It's not like she is a character that you can say "she's such a great person if people could just see past the fat exterior" - nope, not a great person. <br />I couldn't care less if she was fat, thin, whatever - she is a boring character and I could not even get through the whole book. I read until she was setting out on her own to find Gooch and that was it. <br />Did she ever find him? Did she find herself and the author just forgot to tell us who she was? And does anybody really care? <br />Glad I didn't buy this book.
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