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Later Love
A mix of May-December romances, wearily married love, widows and widowers, or gay divorcees, these stories demonstrate that it isn't only young men's fancies that get us in trouble.  Print Friendly Format |
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Private View by Anita Brookner [Fic Bro] Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name--up until now. For into George's life walks Katy Gibb, young, abrasively self-assured, who incites in George the most alarming feelings. |
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Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown [Fic Bro] from Kirkus Reviews: "Norris Lamb, a middle-aged bachelor who serves as postmaster of Hursley and organist of St. Alphage Parish Church, has discovered to his amazement that…he has fallen in love. .The woman who has awakened these feelings is Vida Stephen, a local spinster who looks after the mentally retarded son of a well-to-do architect." |
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Bingo by Rita Mae Brown [Fic Bro] from Amazon.com: "…an outrageous, poignant, and surprising story of passion, rivalry, and small-town fun." |
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Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns [Fic Bur] from Amazon.com: "The town of Cold Sassy, Georgia is scandalized on July 5, 1906 when E. Rucker Blakeslee, a widower for three weeks, eloped with Love Simpson, a northerner." |
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Oh What a Paradise It Seems by John Cheever [Fic Che] from Amazon.com: "An old man falls violently in love and does valiant battle against unscrupulous polluters in John Cheever's ineffably joyful last novel." |
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My Summer with George by Marilyn French [Fic Fre] from Amazon.com: "Hermione Beldame is a women's romance writer who has done quite well for herself. Survivor of four marriages and many affairs, she's not as young as she once was, and after years of success and solitude she finds herself lonely and in need of love. When she meets George, a southern newspaper editor, his shy, handsome honesty is a little too much for her vulnerable self. And she determines to make something of their obvious attraction for one another." |
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Fic Gar] from Amazon.com: "Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, (the story) relates one of literature's most remarkable stories of unrequited love." |
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The All of It by Jeannette Haien [Fic Hai] from Amazon.com: "Kevin Dennehy and his wife, Enda, have been sweetly living a lie for some 50 years, a lie the full extent of which Father Declan learns only when Enda finally confides "the all of it." Her tale of suffering mesmerizes the priest, who recognizes that it is also a tale of sin and scandal, a transgression he cannot ignore. The resolution of his dilemma is a triumph of strength and empathy." |
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