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Her Name Was Lola by Russell Hoban
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Her Name Was Lola (original 2003; edition 2004)

by Russell Hoban

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'This is it...this is my destiny woman,' Max blurted out when he first met Lola at the Coliseum shop. Not only was she aristocratic and wild at heart, but the two discovered an uncanny convergence of musical tastes. Soon they were converging at every level - Lola filling Max's emptiness and vice versa. But Max has always craved the recognition of another sort of woman, the sort who had been Homecoming Queen at her high school - just as the tempting Lula Mae Flowers had been back in Texas. Why did Max have to meet Lula Mae just when he's found his destiny woman in Lola? And if Lola embodied everything Max longed for, how could there be anything left over for Texan ex-Homecoming Queens?… (more)
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Title:Her Name Was Lola
Authors:Russell Hoban
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Her Name Was Lola by Russell Hoban (2003)

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The first thing one needs to know about Her Name Was Lola is that it's a short book with even shorter chapters. It's a quick read - maybe even a lazy Sunday-in-one-sitting kind of read.

November, 2001. Max has writer's block. As described in the first chapter, "Max writes novels that don't sell, children's picture books that do." Only, the picture books aren't getting written either. Instead, he is wandering around London, talking to himself and dealing with a dwarf demon called Apasmara on his back. Apasmara out of Hindu mythology and symbolizes Forgetfulness, Heedlessness, Selfishness, Ignorance, and Materialism. He was sent to make Max forget about Lola Bessington.
Flashback to December 1996. Max meets Lola and falls in love. She falls back. A few months later Max meets Lula and falls in love. She too falls back. Two women with similar names. One man with "blighter's rock." One big problem. Hoban always announces the date at the beginning of each chapter. To orientate the reader or mark the passage of time, I don't know. It's not a spoiler to say Max loses both women, but I think it is a spoiler when I say his fictional character is the one who gets it right. Leave to Max to create a character who is more virtuous than himself. ( )
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'The sun rises in the morning,
you run your ship aground,
you get court-martialled.'

Commander Richard Farrington
Captain, HMS Nottingham
8 July 2002
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To Dominic

(a.k.a. Seamus Flannery)
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November 2001. No letters on the mat this morning.
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'This is it...this is my destiny woman,' Max blurted out when he first met Lola at the Coliseum shop. Not only was she aristocratic and wild at heart, but the two discovered an uncanny convergence of musical tastes. Soon they were converging at every level - Lola filling Max's emptiness and vice versa. But Max has always craved the recognition of another sort of woman, the sort who had been Homecoming Queen at her high school - just as the tempting Lula Mae Flowers had been back in Texas. Why did Max have to meet Lula Mae just when he's found his destiny woman in Lola? And if Lola embodied everything Max longed for, how could there be anything left over for Texan ex-Homecoming Queens?

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