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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  laws | Sep 24, 2009 |  This story was difficult to follow...it jumped back and forth between present day and 1963. It was supposed to be a story about a marriage on the rocks, with the husband cheating on his wife...which it was, to some certain extent. Too many other storylines got in the way. (  ) missysbooknook | Sep 18, 2009 | I really enjoyed this book. It became a little confusing at times when she would flash us back to 1963 and we had to kind of untangle who people were and who their children turned out to be. But, a clever story...although the ending left us hanging. Ugh. (  ) carmarie | Aug 6, 2009 | Although Schwarz's forte is usually in her character development that carries the story, this novel lags as far as having a really gripping and interesting plot. We never quite get to plumb the depths of the characters' motivations or thoughts as the story evolves, briefly sizzles, and then sputters to an unsatisfying conclusion. The events of this novel take place on a single July day. Jon, an advertising executive is having an affair with a co-worker, Freddie. His wife, Ginny -- a landscape designer, is clueless and blunders on about her business after a morning argument with Jon. Meanwhile, he is on his way to a summer fair with his new love. Jon is trying to decide what to do about his predicament -- should he leave Ginny and be with Freddie? Ginny is clueless about the adultery even though Jon's business partner is about to sabotage the situation. The point of view jumps back and forth between the main characters, but an annoying side plot emerges -- and involves confusing situations from the past lives of their parents. The conclusion is unclear and the purpose of the story is not made evident to the reader who is left, hanging, at the end. If you want to read this book, I strongly suggest you borrow it and not purchase a copy. (  ) dianestm | Jul 21, 2009 | Fast paced page turner. Great ending with a twist. - reviewed by Heidi ( ) BayShoreBooks | Mar 13, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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The bestselling author of Drowning Ruth returns to the small-town Wisconsin she so brilliantly evoked with this gripping novel about love, marriage, and adultery.
In the summer of 1963 a plot for revenge destroys a career, a friendship, and a family. The consequences of the scandalous event continue to reverberate, touching the next generation. Thirty years later, over the course of one day, Jon struggles to decide whether to end his affair or his marriage. His wife, Ginny, moving closer to discovering his adultery, begins working for an older man who is mysteriously connected to their families’ pasts. And Jon’s mistress is being courted by a suitor who may be more menacing than he initially seems. As relationships among the characters ebb and flow on that July day, Christina Schwarz illuminates the ties that bind people together—and the surprising risks they take in the name of love.
As in Drowning Ruth, Schwarz weaves past and present into a richly textured portrait of the secrets and deceptions that simmer beneath everyday life in a small midwestern town. With page-turning intensity and in prose at once lush and precise, she beautifully conjures the emotional labyrinth of a marriage on the brink of collapse and proves that no matter how hard we work to stifle them, the secrets of the past refuse to be ignored.
Betrayal versus loyalty . . . lust versus love . . . infidelity versus honor. Welcome to the complex web of Christina Schwarz’s dazzling new novel, So Long at the Fair.
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I found the changing between the chapters,from past to present and vise versa to be very confusing. It made me not like the story as much. The best part of the story was at the end when Ginny answers her cell and notices the call is from Freddi, there goes her fears about Jon having an affair? (