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Braving the mysteries of the heart's desire, Maureen Howard renders the heady madness of a first kiss while plumbing history, art, genetics, and astronomy to explore the inevitable morning-after question: Why do two people fall in love? No library descriptions found. |
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Artie (Arthur) O'Conner, a young computer wizard with a lofty I.Q. but no plans for the future, is obsessed with his past. Left an orphan when his flamboyant mother died, and never knowing who his father was, Artie rebelled against the safe life his grandparents gave him, and became an iconoclast and an outsider. He fails to listen to his beloved girlfriend Lou's advice: "Get serious". After making a terrible scene at a New Year's Eve party, Artie is banished , in disgrace, from Lou's life, and he must find a way to woo her back.
Lou ( Louise) Moffat is an up-and-coming artist who, although she ran away from her home on a Wisconsin farm, is inspired by that bucolic world. Her dismissal of Artie leaves her bereft, unable to paint or even eat or sleep, but she remains adamant in her refusal to listen to Artie's pleas.
So begins A LOVER'S ALMANAC, a novel that uses THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC as its format. Maureen Howard entwines Lou and Artie's fateful romance with stories of other lovers, family members, and friends. We meet Artie's grandfather, Cyril O'Conner, who gave up reading history for a life on Wall Street, only to find that when he finally had the time to read his beloved history books, he was going blind. Sylvie, a war refugee from Austria who has loved Cyril most of her adult life. Bud Boyce, corporate leader of Skylark, an innovative computer company, and Artie's old friend and sometime boss, who is entranced by weather reports and dreams of having his own weather station, but fails to understand that even if you can predict the weather, you are still at its mercy.
Woven into the captivating stories of all the characters are THE OLD FARMER's ALMANAC style entries that trace the year's progress month by month, deliver good advice, and deliver historical events and biographies of famous genii ranging from Ben Franklin to Comenius.
A LOVER"S ALMANAC is a fine book, enormously entertaining----it is a very good read. ( )