Acts of Love
by Judith Michael
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A New York theater director falls in love with an actress after reading the correspondence between her and his dead grandmother. He tracks her down to discover she is not the woman he imagined. He leaves disappointed, but a correspondence gets underway and love blooms anew, and this time it is for keeps. By the husband-and-wife team who wrote A Tangled Web.Tags
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I like something with a little more substance and a little more realistic. I just couldn't buy the whole premise that letters alone can propel you into that kind of love. If you don't buy that premise, the rest sort of falls apart.
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Judith Michael is the pseudonym of the married-couple writing team of Judith Barnard and Michael Fain. They began their writing career by writing newspaper and magazine articles on family, marriage, and relationships, then they turned to the writing of novels in 1982. Some of their works include "Deceptions," "Acts of Love," "Pot of Gold," show more "Sleeping Beauty," and "A Tangled Web." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Het toneel van de liefde
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Lucas Cameron; Jessica Fountaine
- Important places
- Australia; Lopez Island, Washington, USA; New South Wales, Australia; New York, USA; New York, New York, USA; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (show all 8); Umbria, Italy; Washington, USA
- Epigraph
- I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. ("Locksley Hall", Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
- Dedication
- For Ann Patty
- First words
- Jessica and Luke had met only a few times before she disappeared.
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- 5 — Dutch, English, French, Italian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 33
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 5
